‘Compulsory education for children a social investment’

June 13, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 01:15 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA:

City Police Commissioner A.B. Venkateswara Rao on Friday appealed to parents to give proper education to their wards, which, he termed, was a social investment for the future.

Launching a signature campaign against child labour, organised on International Anti-Child Labour Day here on Friday, he said China grew faster than India in all aspects, and that its income had gone up by six per cent in the last few years just because of the growth in the Human Development Index.

The programme was jointly organised by the Labour Department, National Child Labour Project (NCLP), Women Development and Child Welfare and police departments.

Joint Commissioner of Labour (Eluru Zone-2) M.N. Varahala Reddy, Krishna District Deputy Commissioner of Labour N. Suryanarayana, NCLP Project Director D. Anjaneya Reddy, Assistant Commissioner of Labour K. Vijayabhaskar Reddy, Child Welfare Committee member Balashowry, representatives of various NGOs and a large number of participated. Addressing the gathering at PWD grounds, Mr. Venkateswara Rao said the mission to increase literacy was going on a very slow pace. “Though the government has taken up the slogan of ‘education for all’, it is yet to be achieved. There is also a need to focus on improving literacy,” he added. Mr. Varahala Reddy appealed to police to take steps to prevent child labour, bonded labour, child abuse and child marriages.Children, carrying placards, raised slogans demanding that the government ban child labour and provide 5 per cent reservation for inmates of orphanages and rescued children.

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