Tirupur: Pandemic Covid-19 has pushed 60% -70% of students into child workers in the district, Director of Childline Tirupur C Nambi said on Friday and asked the school education department to take the steps needed to take them back to school.
As data is available with lines, they have saved 142 child labor in the last 19 months and took steps to rehabilitate them.
“Universities and schools are closed during induced pandemic locking.
About 60% -70% of school children have become child laborers during the period.
We have asked the school education department to save them and take the steps needed to give back To school, “said Nambi.
He said the number of children’s marriage was up in the period during the period.
“We have stopped 79 children’s weddings in the last 19 months and 10 of them were stopped on the day when the marriage had to be resolved.” Nambi said they were also told about 87 children’s marriages after they were private.
The trend is usually mostly among the scheduled castes, the backward class and the most class community backward.
“Pandemics have regarding many livelihoods from them, who are forced to marry little girls as part of the cost of cutting costs.
The caste scheduled for people did not realize that marriage was illegal.
There is a need to create awareness between them,” he said .