Union Minister for Textiles and Women & Child Development Smriti Irani announced about the law while speaking in the 3rd Laureates and Leaders 'Fair Share for Children' Summit. To address child labour, action needs to begin now, and I say this on behalf of the organisations that I lead and I serve, especially in the Textile Sector. There is an understanding that the Indian government and the Indian Parliament has banned child labour and that punishments will be the strictest faced by a corporate entity or by a manufacturing unit,” said, Smriti Irani. Held over the past two days the Summit discussed the rapidly emerging global child rights crisis resulting from COVID-19 and put forward united solutions. We are not going to accept more child labour, child trafficking and slavery of children as the new normal.

Source: dna September 11, 2020 12:21 UTC