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Child Labour survey in 18 districts completed: Minister

LAHORE, Oct 14 (APP): Provincial Minister for Labour andHuman Resource Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has said a baseline survey giving authentic data of children working at auto workshops, petrol pumps and hotels of 18 districts in Punjab has been completed. Talking to a delegation here, Raja Ashfaq Sarwar saidthat identified children from 5 to 14 years of agehave been enrolled in government schools, Nor-formal BasicEducation Centres of NGOs and Partner Schools of PunjabEducation Foundation whereas adolescents from 15 to 18 yearsof age have been enrolled in the vocational training institutes.