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Avatar Posted by kiran 188 days ago (http://www.mumbaimirror.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: bmc water drain child labor child labour
At one hand BMC is buying state of the art machines to stich the roads and in ghatkopar minors between the age of 10 and 14 are being used by contractors appointed by BMC because they can easily slip into the narrow mouths of drains to collect silt and garbage. It seems BMC is trying everything to save their skin this mansoon. read more »
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Avatar Posted by manishbhau 245 days ago (http://www.mumbaimirror.com)
Category: Society | Tags: child labour domestic underage servants
Some of the best-known names in the country live here, and it's certainly the most expensive address in Mumbai, realty boom or not. It also doesn't seem like a place government investigators would go to looking for child labourers.

But here, in Wing I of the plush Maker Towers at Cuffe Parade, the state's labour department has found five children employed as domestic servants by three very read more »
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Avatar Posted by meekon 339 days ago (http://www.mumbaimirror.com)
Category: General | Tags: child labour ngo charity
He dropped his studies and became the sole breadwinner of the family at the age of 13 after his father died last year in an accident while his mother died two years ago due to illness, leaving behind two young brothers and an elder sister under his care.

After struggling to meet the ends and feed his siblings, 13-year-old Veermani Harijanm, residing at Swami Nagar, Ambernath, found a job at a read more »
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Avatar Posted by meekon 348 days ago (http://www.mumbaimirror.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: child labour exploitation human rights
A notice issued to the Union government by a group of 'rescued' child labourers has thrown open for debate an issue that the authorities might want to sweep under the carpet.

Ten children aged between 12 and 16, recently rescued when police raided a jewellery unit near Cotton Exchange building, Kalbadevi, have sent notices to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, the Censor Board and th read more »
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Avatar Posted by meekon 356 days ago (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
Category: Mumbai | Tags: child labour exploitation human rights
The biggest employers of children in Mumbai until a few years ago may have been brutal, profiteering, sweatshop owners, but the biggest users of child labour today go by a much more innocuous name: the average Mumbai householder.

With an estimated 11,000 children still working in the city, the largest single segment using child labour is considered to be domestic households. There are an estim read more »
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Avatar Posted by kiran 398 days ago (http://www.expressindia.com)
Category: Society | Tags: dharavi child labour
Most of the rescued children hail from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and were confined to their units. They were made to work for 15 hours for a paltry sum of Rs 100 a week and the older and skilled children were paid Rs 50 to 100 per day. read more »
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