TRUTH ALONE TRIUMPHS ABSTRACT

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10 · Health Department 11 . Public Works and Highways Department 12. Information and Public Relations Department 13. Revenue Department 14. Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department 15. Backward Community And Most Backward And Denotified Communities Welfare Department 16. Commissionerate of Social Defence 17. Tamil Nadu State Commission for Protection of Child rights 18. NGOs and other organizations Non Governmental organization Employer's associations Trade unions Resident welfare associations

3 · The Plantation Labour Act; 1951:

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10 · The Tamil Nadu Catering Establishments Act; 1958:

11 · The Tamil Nadu Handloom Workers (Conditions of Employment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act; 1981

10 · dhabas (roadside eateries) , restaurants, hotels, motels, resorts; 11 . diving; 12. circus; 13. caring of Elephant; 14_ power driven bakery machine; 15. shoe making: Processes

13 · Automobile repairs and maintenance including processes incidental thereto namely, welding, lathe work; dent beating and painting; 14. Roof tiles units; 15. Cotton ginning and processing and production of hosiery goods; 16. Detergent manufacturing; 17 . Fabrication workshops (ferrous and non-ferrous); 18. Gem cutting and polishing; 19. Handling of chromite and manganese ores; 20. Jute textile manufacture and coir making; 21. Lime kilns and manufacture of lime;

22 · Lock making; 23. Manufacturing processes having exposure to lead such as primary and secondary smelting,welding and cutting of lead-painted metal constructions, welding of galvanized or zincsilicate, polyvinyl chloride, mixing (by hand) of crystal glass mass, sanding or scraping of leadpaint; burning of lead in enamelling workshops, lead mining, plumbing, cable making, wirepatenting; lead casting, type founding in printing shops. shot making and lead glass blowing; 24. Manufacture of cement pipes, cement products and other related work; 25. Manufacture of glass, glass ware including bangles, florescent tubes, bulbs and other similar glass products; 26. Manufacturing or handling of pesticides and insecticides; 27 . Manufacturing or processing and handling of corrosive and toxic substances; 28. Manufacturing of burning coal and coal briquettes; 29. Manufacturing of sports goods involving exposure to synthetic materials, chemicals and leather; 30. Oil expelling and refinery; 31. Paper making; 32. Potteries and ceramic industry; 33. Polishing; moulding, cutting, welding and manufacturing of brass goods in all forms; 34. Processes in agriculture where tractors, threshing and harvesting machines are used and chaff cutting; 35. Saw mill all processes;

36 · Sericulture processing; 37 . Skinning, dyeing and processes for manufacturing of leather and leather products; 38. Tyre making, repairing; re-treading and graphite beneficiation; 39. Utensils making, polishing and metal buffing; 40. Zari' making and processes involving the use of zari (all processes); 41. Graphite powdering and incidental processing; 42. Grinding or glazing of metals;

43 · Diamond cutting and polishing; 44. Rag picking and scavenging; 45. Mechanized fishing; 46. Food processing; 47 . Beverage industry; 48. Cultivating, sorting, drying and packaging in spice industry; 49. Timber handling and loading; 50. Mechanical lumbering; 51. Warehousing; 52. Massage parlours, gymnasiums, or other recreational centres, or in medical facilities; 53. Operations involving the following dangerous machines:- (a) hoists and lifts; (b) lifting machines, chains, ropes and lifting tackles; (c) revolving machinery; (d) power presses; (e) machine tools used in the metal trades; 54. Composing types for printing; printing by letter press, lithography, photogravure or other similar process or book-binding, as specified in sub-clause (iv) of clause (k) of section 2 of the Factories Act; 1948. Il This notification shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

1 · In the Government Order second read above Government have approved an Action Plan for eradication of the use of Child Labour in the State. The Action Plan proposes observances of one day every year as "Anti Child Labour Day" to focus Public attention on the subject: The Commissioner of Labour has reported that the International Labour Organisation (ILO) observed 12th June every year as 'Anti Child Labour Day." He has proposed that it would be desirable to follow the ILO and observe 12th June of every year "Anti Child Labour Dayl"

1 · Government of Tamil Nadu has adopted Child Labour Eradication as one of its top priorities inits 15 point Programmes for making Tamil Nadu the best State in the Country: In order to achieve this objective, a State Action Plan for Eradication of Child Labour in hazardous employment by the year 2005 and in non-hazardous employment by the year 2007 has been prepared and approved by the Government in the G.O. second read above_ 2 The Action Plan requires coordinated action for detection of Child Labour; rescue and rehabilitation of such children, enforcement of laws prohibiting Child Labour and a strong programme to create Public opinion against employment of Child Labour: All this requires convergence of activities of number of Government Departments and Non-Government Organisations. Such coordination has to be provided at the district level by District Collectors. In order to encourage and motivate the District Collectors in their action towards elimination of Child Labour; the Commissioner of Labour in his letter first read above has recommended a scheme of giving an annual Award to the District Collector who has done the best work in the field of eradication of Child Labour:

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2 · The Commissioner of Labour in his letters second read above has stated that in order to implement the Action Plan all District Collectors were requested to take action and send proposals for declaring their respective districts as 'Child Labour free' after duly eliminating child labour from Organized Unorganized, Registered Unregistered employments In the meeting of the State Authority on Eradication of Child Labour held on 17.11.2005 under the Chairmanship of the Chief Secretary to Government; it was also decided that the District Collectors could be empowered to declare their respective Districts as "Child Labour Free subject to the fulfilment of the Guidelines and Criteria to be prescribed by the Government The Commissioner of Labour has also stated that after taking note of the steps taken by the District Collectors, the points considered by the evaluating agencies and the comments of the International Labour Organization on the draft criteria of the Commissioner of Labour a draft Guidelines_and_Criteria for the_District Collectors_to declare their_districts as "'Child Labour Free" has been prepared and sent for approval and for issue of orders by the Government 3. The Government after careful consideration, approve the Draft Guidelines and Criteria for the District Collectors to declare their districts as Child Labour Free' as in the annexure to this G.O.

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2 · In the letter 2nd read above, the State Project Director; Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has stated that the procedures mentioned by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights are being adopted at present in this State and suggestions given by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights may also be taken into account and requested to issue appropriate Government order to define "DROP OUT" as suggested by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights:

3 · The Government after careful consideration accept the proposal of State Project Director; Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and issue the following orders to define dropout Out of School Children