The National Child Labour Project has organised a week-long programme, which started on Monday, to create awareness against child labour and to make Coimbatore free of child labour. D. Vijayakumar, director of NCLP here, said that awareness programmes are organised in schools on all the seven days. Employment of child labour has come down in the district and with better awareness it can be stopped completely. Officials of different departments of the Government and the NCLP will conduct enforcement drives on Wednesday and Thursday. The district has 750 rescued child workers studying at the special centres in the district and a sports meet will be held for them on Thursday. On Friday, the District Collector Archana Patnaik will distribute assistance to rescued child workers, he said.
