DC seeks flat owners' cooperation to eradicate child labour

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July 26, 2011

Mangalore, July 26: In order to eradicate the menace of child-labour, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr N S Channappa Gowda directed the flat owners' associations to inform the district administration or the Assistant Commissioner of Department of Labour in case they come across instances where children below 14-years are employed as domestic help.

DC who is also the Chairman of District Labour Project Society, chairing a meeting in his office to review the implementation of action plan for the eradication of child labour on Tuesday, said that the practice of child labour is rampant especially in residential flats in the city, despite people know that employing children is a punishable offence. There are more than 170 important flats across the city and the decree applies to all of them, he said. The residents should inform if their neighbours employed children under the age of 14, he said.

30 cases in 4 years

The DC said as many as 16424 inspections were conducted from 2007-08 to 2010-11, according to an action plan for the eradication of child labour, in which officials of Labour Department and other departments found 30 child labourers in the district.

He said all the 30 child labourers have been rehabilitated. An amount of Rs 2,25,000, collected from the offender owners after the raids, has been deposited in the fund of child rehabilitation.

Venkatesh Shindihatti, Assistant Commissioner of Department of Labour, informed that three child labourers, whom they found at fishing port at Bunder, were admitted to schools.

He said the department had directed all government schools and aided schools to submit 'Declaration Certificates' signed by the parents of the children stating that they do not employ children in their houses or shops. However, he said, only 913 school and colleges submitted this certificate.

DC directed that all the schools should submit the declaration certificate with immediate effect.

Puttur Sub-Divisional officer Dr Harish Kumar, Labour Officer Nagesh and others were present.

No garbage in Plastic

The DC has also directed flat owners' association henceforth not to dispose garbage tied in plastic covers. “People should instead hand over the same to garbage pickup vans deployed by Mangalore City Corporation,” he said.

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February 24,2020

Krishnagiri, Feb 24: Vidya Rani, daughter of dead sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, joined the BJP on Saturday at an event organised in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri.

Party general secretary Muralidhar Rao and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan were present at the event.

"I want to work for the poor and underprivileged irrespective of their caste and religion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's schemes are for the people and I want to take them to the people," said Vidya Rani.

Besides Vidya Rani, the event saw as many as 1,000 members from other political parties join the BJP.

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Monday, 24 Feb 2020

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May 29,2020

Bengaluru, May 29: The Karnataka government has requested the Civil Aviation Ministry to reduce the number of flights, emanating from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to the state in view of the high number of Covid-19 Cases prevalent there.

In a clarification issued to the Media this evening, the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Mr J C Madhuswamy has said that Karnataka has not sought for imposing a ban on flights emanating from these places, as reported in some sections of the Media.

Karnataka has appealed to the Civil Aviation Ministry to take steps to lessen the air traffic to the State, with the sacred intention that there may not be adequate quarantine facilities if there is huge turnout at a short period, he added.

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May 1,2020

Bengaluru, May 1: As Mumbai link surfacing in some COVID-19 cases in Mandya district in Karnataka, JDS leader and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday blamed the district administration for the situation, accusing it of not quarantining 7,000 labourers who 'returned' from the Maharashtra capital.

"The information we have is that there are about 16,000 labourers from Mandya were working in Mumbai of which 7,000 people reached the district. None of them was quarantined properly," Kumaraswamy told reporters in Bengaluru.

He claimed the district, a stronghold of JDS, was staring at a major spurt in cases due to the careless attitude of the district administration. "Government should initiate action against those who are responsible for the laxity," he said.

However, he did not specify when the 7,000 workers returned to Mandya. When asked about Kumaraswamy's claim, officials said they have to verify it. Of the eight cases reported from Mandya on Friday, three had a travel history to Mumbai, a major COVID-19 hotspot in the country, officials said.

A Health Department official said four of the fresh cases were contacts of a patient who tested positive on April 8 and admitted to a hospital. After weeks of coming in contact with him, the four were confirmed for COVID-19, an official said. The Three people with travel history to Mumbai had, in fact, brought the body of a man who died of a heart attack there on April 24, the official added.

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