GS PAPER II: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.

Context: Union Minister of Women and Child Development and Textiles, has appealed to citizens to report the instances of Child Labour on PENCIL Portal or by calling on Childline-1098.

• India has ratified the two Core Conventions of International Labour Organization (ILO), Convention 138 regarding admission of age to employment and Convention 182 regarding worst forms of Child Labour in June 2017, which shows the country's commitment to a child labour free nation.

About PENCIL Portal:

• PENCIL is an electronic platform that aims at involving Centre, State, District, Governments, civil society and the general public in achieving the target of child labour free society.
• Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour (PENCIL) had been launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India.

Components of the platform

The PENCIL Portal has the following components.

• Child Tracking System
• Complaint Corner
• State Government
• National Child Labour Project and Convergence.

Implementation

• The Districts will nominate District Nodal Officers (DNOs) who will receive the complaints and within 48 hours of receiving, they will check the genuineness of the complaint and take the rescue measures in coordination with police, if the complaint is found to be genuine.

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1726502

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