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Article

23 May 2005

Author:
G.S. Radhakrishna, Telegraph [India]

Child labour haunts Andhra [India]

Some 1.8 lakh [180,000] children below 14 are being made to work illegally in the fields, factories, shops and restaurants in Andhra Pradesh, state labour officials revealed today....1,614 people, including farmers and restaurant owners, were prosecuted for hiring child labourers in the past 12 months, the [state labour] minister [G. Vinod] said.