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MADURAI: The Pudukottai district will soon be declared ` Child labour-free', according to the District Collector, Mr Jatindranath Swain.

December 2004 has been declared as the deadline for the declaration. As many as 36,405 factories and business establishments have been inspected. These have revealed that they employed no child labourers.

Village committees were formed at Panchayat level to eliminate child labour are to meet on November 18 to assess the problem and draw rehabilitation programmes for the identified child labourers. All the child labour special schools are to be closed by May 2005, he said.

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