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Special
Schools for Child Labourers
Under INDUS project of Child Labour, with the financial
assistance both from Government of India and the United States
Department of Labour and the execution by International Labour
Organisation, six special schools are being run in Pallipalayam
and Komarapalayam areas where the textile industries concentrated
in Namakkal District. The six schools are catered to 240 child
labourers in the following areas:
1.
Subash Nagar, Pallipalayam.
2. Amman Nagar, Pallipalayam.
3. Avathipalayam, Pallipalayam.
4. Chinnayakatoor, Pallipalayam.
5. K. Olappalayam, Komarapalayam.
6. Perantharkadu, Komarapalayam.
The
child labourers in the special schools are provided with nutritious
lunch and they have been given intensive education for 5 hours
per day at par with the Tamilnadu Government Education syllabus.
Apart from the educational input, the skilled teachers are
teaching various skills on cultural, sports and games and
fine arts.
Keeping
in mind that poverty is the main cause of the child labour
system in the country, the parents of the children are being
motivated to form as self-help groups to generate income,
build assets and move towards self-reliance. It also paved
a way to spur the rural economy at the village level.
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