Telangana News: RPF launched awareness campaign to stop child labor

HYDERABAD. Hyderabad: On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour, the Secunderabad Railway Protection Force (RPF) in association with Bachpan Bachao Andolan and Department of Women Development and Child Welfare organised an awareness programme to combat child labour on Wednesday. Police personnel conducted a flag march and informed passengers in waiting rooms, platforms and trains about the ill-effects of child labour. In the year 2024, Secunderabad RPF rescued 124 children at the railway station and handed them over to child helpline officials. Out of the rescued children, 47 were trafficked from different places and 15 traffickers were arrested.

Bachpan Bachao Andolan state coordinator Venkateshwarlu Ande said, “The RPF also has a separate anti-human trafficking unit to rescue children trafficked from other states.” Officials said that after the children are rescued by the RPF, they are produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and then, depending on the circumstances, they are handed over to their parents or rehabilitated in shelter homes.