• Government had initiated the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme in 1988 to                rehabilitate working children in 12 child labour endemic districts of the country.

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• This is the major Central Sector Scheme for the rehabilitation of child labour.
• The Scheme seeks to adopt a sequential approach with focus on rehabilitation of children working in hazardous occupations & processes in the first instance.
• Under the Scheme, survey of child labour engaged in hazardous occupations & processes has been conducted.
• The identified children are to be withdrawn from these occupations & processes and then put into special schools in order to enable them to be mainstreamed into formal schooling system.
• Project Societies at the district level are fully funded for opening up of special schools/Rehabilitation Centres for the rehabilitation of child labour.

The special schools/Rehabilitation Centres provide:

• Non-formal/bridge education
• Skilled/vocational training
• Mid Day Meal
• Stipend @ Rs.150/- per child per month.
• Health care facilities through a doctor appointed for a group of 20 schools.