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99pc of child labour hazardous

Speakers tell seminar

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need for a coordinated effort to eliminate child labour from the country.
Poverty is the main reason behind child labour and 99 percent of such labour in the country is hazardous, they added.
The speakers said this at the seminar on 'Experiences of poverty and working children project' organised by Save the Children-UK at a city hotel with Prof Abul Barakat in the chair.
Save the Children-UK ran the project funded by the
European Union from 2004-2009 and shared their experiences. It also placed some recommendations in this connection.
Under the project In Kurigram, Khulna and the city's Lalbagh areas, the code of conduct for the employers was prepared and maintained along with children's saving schemes and working children's education programme.
Speaking as the chief guest, Dr Alauddin Ahmed, adviser to prime minister, said a collective effort is required to eliminate child labour as some 7.4 million children are engaged in paid labour which is quite a big number.
"The area of social safety net should be broaden and the amount of the financial allocation be increased to address the people living below the poverty line," he said.
He stressed the need to strengthen the local government system so that the local elected representatives can work for eliminating child labour issue and can work for managing the health and education of these children.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury said that elimination of child labour is also stated in the country's Labour Law 2006. But it is not that much easy to eliminate
child labour.
"A monitoring mechanism can be established through the child labour unit as well as taking necessary steps for poverty reduction,” she added.
Jean Jacques Lauture, head of operation of the delegation of European Union to Bangladesh. Shalahuddin Khan, senior programme officer of the delegation, Prof Syed M Hashemi, director of Brae Development Institute of Brae University, and Dr Pranab Kumar Pandey, chairman of the department of Public Administration of Rajshahi University, also spoke.