Eliminating bonded labour: trade representatives urged to create awareness

Punjab Labour Minister, Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi has asked trade union representatives to create awareness for elimination of bonded labour, child labour, exploitation of brick kiln workers and labourers' rights. He said that government is giving top priority to eliminate the menace of bonded labour in brick kilns and combating worst forms of child labour in the province.
While talking to a delegation of labourers on the eve of World Child Labour Day on Sunday, Ehsaan-ud-Din said that steps are being taken to eradicate these evils and the department is extending programme of elimination of bonded labour in brick kilns projects in eight additional districts. He said that free education including books, stationery, transport and uniform are also being provided to 28,000 children of workers in 46 workers welfare schools of the province.
He informed that workers welfare board is bearing all educational expenses of the children of workers in those six districts of the Punjab where workers welfare schools do not exist. A public awareness campaign may be launched by NGOs through holding seminars for elimination of the curse and the labour department will provide all out co-operation in this regard, he concluded.