The Government of Puducherry vide its notification dated 17th November 2020 has published the Puducherry Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) (Amendment) Rules, 2020. The amendment rules directs the government to ensure that the children and adolescents are not employed or permitted to work in any occupation or process and shall arrange public awareness campaigns using folk and traditional media and mass media including television, radio, internet based application and the print media to make the general public, including the employers and the children and adolescents who may be employed in contravention to the provisions of the Act, aware about the provisions of the Act.
The Government shall promote through appropriate method the inclusion of the provisions of the Act in learning material and syllabus in school education.
Further a child Day, without affecting his school education, in any manner, shall help his such help his family in his family enterprise, subject to the condition that such help shall not be in any hazardous occupation and shall not perform any tasks during school hours and between 7.00 p.m and 8.0O a.m.
Any person who may file a complaint under the Act for the commission of any offence include School Teachers and representatives from School Management Committee, Child protection Committee, Panchayat or Municipality, who shall be sensitized to file complaint, in the event that any of students in their respective Schools is employed in contravention to the provisions of the Act.
