Fund to curb child labour in carpet units
New Delhi: The labour ministry will soon create a fund to deal with the problem of child labour in the carpet industry. The fund for the corpus will be collected from the employers in the carpet weaving belt in Uttar Pradesh and an equal portion will be contributed by the government, labour secretary PD Shenoy has said.

Releasing a book on 'Child labour in carpet industry: Impact of social labelling' authored by Alakh N Sharma, Rajeev Sharma and Nikhil Raj, Dr Shenoy said: "The initiative forms part of the government strategy to improve the living and working conditions of the weaving community by exerting pressure on the exporters and suppliers to enforce fair conditions, including prohibiting child labour in the production of carpets".
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