CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Bihar Chief Minister initiated the special commission to protect against the Child labour named as Child Labour Tracking System. He allocated the amount of Rs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Child labour is most prevalent in five regions Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra are the main states in India where child labour is present. This is where over half of the country’s total child labour population works.

Detailed explanation-3: -Maharashtra became the first state in India to develop a website-based Migration Tracking System (MTS) application to track the movement of migrant workers through individual unique identity numbers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many of these facilities that abuse children for their free labor are located in India. The main states in India where child labor is present are Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Detailed explanation-5: -Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said while in the 2001 census, the number of child labourers was estimated at 1.26 crore, the figure went down to 43.53 lakh in the 2011 census.