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Thursday, Oct 02, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Oct 02, 2003 |
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Industry & Economy
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Hotels AP hoteliers vow not to employ children Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Oct. 1 GIVING a boost to the anti-child labour campaign, hundreds of hoteliers on Wednesday vowed not to employ, directly or indirectly, children below the age of 14 years in their hotels, restaurants, tea kiosks and bakeries. Joining hands, the Andhra Pradesh Hotels Association, Iranian Hotels Association and Hyderabad Hotel Owners and Confectioners Association today passed a resolution in this regard. In the 10-point resolution, the hoteliers said they would take ``every possible step to send such children to schools and wherever possible provide necessary support for the proper functioning of schools in our areas.'' The resolution has been adopted at a State-level convention on the `Strategic role of hoteliers in the elimination of child labour in Andhra Pradesh' here. The hoteliers said they would take necessary action to implement the decisions, which include the preparation of a `Plan of Action' and a committee to monitor the same. Addressing the convention, Mr M.P. Joseph, Project Manager of ILO-IPEC (AP State-based project), said elimination of child labour means a good business sense. ``And employing them (children) makes a very bad business sense,'' he said. ``We could mobilise a powerful group in the form of hoteliers associations to fight child labour in the State,'' Mr Joseph said. Inaugurating the convention, Mr Mandava Venkateswara Rao, Minister for School Education, said making children literates would not help them. ``We have to equip them with skills that can help them stand on their own when they grow old,'' he said. He said professional courses like polytechnic and other technical courses would be introduced in school education so as to give them meaningful education. ``The right place for the children in the age group of 5-15 is schools. If we can see to it that all of them are in schools, we can automatically get rid of child labour,'' he felt. ``We spare none who violate the law. We booked over 5,000 cases last year and collected Rs 1.12 crore as fine,'' the Minister said.
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