Meet says these children have no support system in place to help them.
Many families of hooch tragedy victims have been displaced and there is no information of their whereabouts, it was revealed at a workshop here on Saturday. At the same time, many children who lost their parents are facing lots of problems in the absence of any aid. Many of them are unable to resume their schools.
At a workshop organised by Childline Nodal agency, social work department of Gujarat Vidyapith, it was revealed that at least two dozen children whose parents died in the hooch tragedy are in a bad condition.
The nodal agency is trying to come up with a plan that can take care of 25 kids of the deceased. The project will help bearing the expanses of these children's studies till they complete matriculation.
The workshop was organised on 'Child rights and norms for child' on Saturday at Gujarat Vidyapith.
"We are broadening our role from being a mere helpline. We have tried to get the status of child rescue operations of last six to eight months and found that 104 children were freed while 64 employers were booked. However, there are rigorous steps needed to be taken as we have found that the employers are not depositing Rs20,000 as per the Child Labour (prohibition) Act," said Anandi Patel, director of Childline, Ahmedabad.
She said that government agencies are not willing to take the task more seriously, and despite being given tip-offs of children working as labourers, the concerned officers don't take any action.
Non-violent activists’ meet
Non-violent activists from 32 countries criticised the development-induced displacement and corporate violence, at the War Resister's International (WRI) conference held at Gujarat Vidyapith last week.
India's top intellectuals Ashish Nandy and Arundhati Roy, also participated in the event but stayed away from the media glare.
They, however, delivered lectures to the 175 participants on post Godhra riots of 2002. The theme of the conference was, 'Non-violent livelihood struggle and global militarism.'
Speaking about the meet, president of WRI, Harvard Clark said that the participants were surprised to discover similarity in problems across the world.
He said that people have discovered the link between development and displacement.
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