Satyarthi appeals to MPs to pass Bill banning child labour

November 21, 2014 22:55

Ahead of Parliament's Winter Session, Nobel laureate and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi today appealed to all the MPs to ensure passage of a Bill seeking complete ban on child labour.

"I want to make an earnest appeal to all the Member of Parliaments to pass the key legislation and it is also a moral responsibility on their part to pass the Bill..."

Satyarthi said at a summit organised by a media house. The government is likely to introduce the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill which, once passed, will prohibit employment of children below 14 years in any occupation, bringing the law in consistency with the Right to Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009.

Expressing optimism over eradication of the scourge of child labour, Satyarthi said that India might have a hundred problems but it is also country of a "billion solutions".

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