New Delhi, June 15 (KNN) A Bill is being brought in the Parliament for a complete prohibition of employment of children below 14 years, said Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya.
 
While speaking at Plenary of 104th session of ILC, 2015 in Geneva recently, Dattatreya said, “A robust multi prolonged strategy is being followed to tackle the problem of child labour comprising of statutory and legislative measures, rescue and rehabilitation, universal education along with social protection, poverty alleviation and employment generation schemes”. 
 
Referring to the flagship initiatives like Make in India, Skill India, Digital India, Smart Cities Project taken under  the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ,the Minister said “ Make in India” is a unique endeavour by any Government to encourage domestic industry and attract large scale global investment.

He noted that the earlier GDP growth rate of less than 5 per cent has now reached to 7.4 per cent in one year.

He mentioned that the government has initiated a process of providing an umbrella card to the unorganized sector workers. “This move will bring social security coverage for 1 billion people.”

For the organized sector, portability of provident fund benefits in a hassle free manner has been assured for more than 50 million workers, he said. (KNN Bureau)