project fully and also pursue the wider project which it has devised, namely the Chiid Labour Abolition Programme (CLAP),aimed at dealing comprehensively with child l a b u r in hazardous industries in that State. PREVENllNG EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN BY GOVERNMENT SERVANTS: (B) AMENDEMENT OF SERVICE RULES Following reports of employment of children below the age of 34 years by Government servants and distressing information about the mistreatment of such children, the Commission recommended that this practice should be prohibited through the addition d an appropriate Conduct Rule expressly for this purpose. The amendment suggested to Government of India was as follows: 7.4 Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964 shall be mended by adding the following as Rule 22-A: "22-A: {i) No Government Servant shall employ to work any child below the age of 14 years; (ii) breach af sub-rule (i)shall be misconduct attracting a major penalty". The Commiseion thereafter requested the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of lnda in February 1997 and the Chief Ministers of all the States in March 1997, to enact amendments in the Service Rules of the Cmtral Government and State Government employees raspectively.The State Governments of Andhra Pradesh, Assarn, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and West Bengal accepted the recommendation of the Commission and issued notifications. The State Governments of Gujarat, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Mizoram informed the Commission that, as and when the required amendment would be made by the Central Government, the same would become applicable to them. The remaining States indicated that they were considering adopting the recommendation of the Commission. The Commission takes this opportunity to call upon them to adopt the recommendation without further delay. 7.5 7.6 As the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions expressed certain reservations in regard to the recommendation of the Commission, the matter was pursued with lt in January and February 1999. The Ministry of Personnel thereafter agreed in a discussion to review its earlier stand in the matter. The Commission trusts that its recommendation wil\ be acmpted and that the necessary amendments in the CCS (Conduct) Rules will soon be made.