Shillong, June 24: The Deputy Commissioner, and Chairman District Task Force, East Khasi Hills, Shillong has informed that whoever employs any child or permits any child to work in contravention of the provisions of Sections 3 shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months which may extend to one year or with fine which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees which may extend to twenty thousand rupees or with both.
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 prohibits the employment of childdn under 14 years of age in Abattoirs, slaughter houses, automobile workshops, garages mines and collieries, domestic worcers or servants, dhabas, restaurants, hotels, motel, tea shop, resorts, spas or other recreational centres, soap manufacture, tanning, building and construction industry, automobile repairs workshops, fabrication workshops, lime kilns and manufacture of liine, lock making, manufacturing of burning coal, potteries process in agriculture, saw mills, stone breaking and stone crushing, tyre making repairing and re-treading, utensils making, rag picking and scavenging, food processing, beverage industry, timber handling and loading warehousing.(SP News)
