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Forty-one children were on Wednesday rescued from 12 toy factories in southwest Delhi's Azad Market. Police sealed the factories on Ram Bagh Road and booked their owners.
The rescue operation was jointly conducted by Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), SDM (Kotwali) Daryaganj. the labour department, Bal Vikas Dhara and Delhi Police. All children are aged between 13 and 17 years and belong to states like Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
The rescue teams said the children were living in "horrible" conditions. According to a member. "their clothes were torn, and they were starved and overworked".
A 13-year-old boy, originally form West Bengal, said he and the other children would start their day around 9am and work till 12 midnight—a gruelling 15 hours each day making toy parts at the factories. Afterwards, they used to sleep in a cramped space inside the factory.
Terming it "a shame for the society", BBA director Manish Sharma said, "Even after decades for achieving independence, we haven't been able to free our kids from child labour. Children who should have been playing with toys are making toys and working as slaves. Such incidents should make us all ashamed and angry." In February this year, about 30 children working in various toy manufacturing units were rescued from Wazirpur Industrial Area in northwest Delhi. Following this, Delhi high court had directed that a committee be formed under the supervision of the Delhi chief secretary and district DCPs, in close coordination with the labour and women and child welfare departments and MCD, to inspect the premises of units that employed child labourers.