India Frees Hundreds Of Child Labourers

Police have rescued hundreds of children working in factories in a southern Indian city despite laws banning child labour.

At least 350 youngsters have been saved from leather tanning and plastic factories in Hyderabad in the past 10 days, officials said.

Child welfare officers accompanied them as they were put on a special train to be reunited with their parents in Bihar, one of India's poorest states.

Two boys aboard a special train that will take them home

Police arrested five men accused of supplying children to factory owners.

A senior police official said those rescued were working long hours in deplorable conditions.

"We found the children confined to their work place in inhuman conditions," said R.V. Chandravan.

"They were forced to work for nearly 12 hours a day without any respite.

"Many were suffering from skin and other diseases as they were forced to work in unhygienic and unventilated dark rooms."

Mr Chandravan said their employers would monitor them with video cameras and any child who stopped working would be beaten.

Raids on factories in Hyderabad to check for child workers will be carried out twice a month in future, a labour welfare official said.

"We are taking effective measures to eradicate the mafia behind bringing children from other states to work in hazardous industries here," said Mr Chandravan.

India has laws aimed at fighting child labour by making education compulsory up to age 14 and prohibiting their employment in hazardous occupations.

But grinding poverty means many children are still forced into work, with factory agents promising their wages to their parents.

A census in 2011 found that about 4.35 million children between the ages of five and 14 were in employment.          

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