Abdul Khaliq Qureshi Abbottabad
Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad Tariq Salam Murt said that steps are being taken for prevention and elimination of child labor, professional bagging, bound labor and human trafficking.
A meeting of District Vigilance Committee Abbottabad was held on Monday under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad Tariq Salam Marwat. The meeting discussed issues related to implementation of the decisions taken in the previous meeting and steps to be taken. On the instructions of Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad, Assistant Commissioner Abbottabad, in collaboration with Sabzi Mandi and Sahil Foundation, organized a meeting and compiled statistics regarding the data of children working in Sabzi Mandi.
DC called upon all departments to conduct awareness campaigns, prevention of child labor and prevention of human trafficking and directed all departments to identify cases related to child labor and human trafficking, after which action would be taken as per law and also asked to collect data of all beggars in the district.
Deputy Commissioner Abbottabad urged all participants to collect the data as well as check the data and ensure that the identification of underage minors who are forced to work without pay and issued instructions to take against violators.
