Satish Aditya
Motihari State Labour Resources Department, under a special drive, rescued 26 child labourers working at 18 hotels and roadside eateries in Motihari town, headquarters of East Champaran District, on December 13, 2020. The rescued children have been kept at a Childrens Home.
Rakesh Ranjan, Labour Superintendent, said that he along with officials of Child Protection Council, Child Welfare Society, and a team of policemen conducted raids at several hotels and eateries in Chhatauni locality of Motihari town and rescued the child labourers .The child labourers said they were working there for the last several years and living in unhygienic conditions near the hotels.
Labour Superintendent said that the parents of the rescued children had been informed and till their arrival the children have been kept at the in local Childrens Home. He further said that cases have been lodged against the 18 hotel owners concerned with Chhatauni police station s under different Sections of Child Protection Act. Police are probing into these cases.