10 child workers rescued in Surat

Surat: Ten child labourers were rescued by a task force of the labour department from two textile markets located on city's Ring Road on Wednesday.
Official sources said the child labourers were rescued from the textile shops, where they were employed for organizing and packing saris in boxes on job work. All the rescued children hail from Rajasthan and are below 14 years of age.
Official sources said the labour department's task force personnel led by assistant labour commissioner Ashish Gandhi were on a routine survey operation in the textile market.During the operation, the task force team found child labourers at New T.T Market and Shiv Shakti Textile Market on Ring Road.
The child workers were made to sit on the floor, beside the sari stacks and boxes and organize and pack saris in the boxes.
"The child labourers were caught during the routine operation by the department. Due to frequent raids in the textile markets, the contractors and traders had shifted their illegal activity of employing child labourers to the residential societies in the surrounding areas. The contractors take the residential houses on rent for running the packaging unit employing the child labourers," said assistant labour commissioner Ashish Gandhi. TNN