5.9 The Commission accordingly requested the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions to take appropriate steps to introduce the rule into the Government Service (Conduct) Rules, 1964, and proposed the precise wording required for this purpose. At the same time, the Commission also addressed letters to all Chief Ministers1Administrators of the StateslUnion Territories to amend the relevant Senrice Rules of State Government servants along similar lines. Positive responses have thus far been received from the Department of Personnel, Government of India, and from the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Karnataka, Maharas htra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. 5.10 The Commission also continued to monitor the effort being made in Ferozabad district of Uttar Pradesh to end child labour in the hazardous glass industry. While both awareness of the problem and the number of dedicated persons engaged in the effort has increased, particularly on the non-governmental side, the programme has been hampered by frequent transfers of senior officers at the district level. This has undoubtedly affected the continuity of the programme adversely as also responsibility for it. The programme has still, therefore, to acquire the rigour and consistency that it requires if it is to succeed. Furthermore, quite clearly, the inability to date to provide free and compulsory elementary education to the children of Ferozabad has led to an open-ended situation in which the best of efforts to wean away the children from work are proving impossible to sustain. Indeed, Ferozabad illustrates that without persistence, dedication and sustained leadership, and without the over-all effort being conducted against the back-drop of free and compulsory education, the pieces of the puzzle that need to be put together to end child labour, may never quite fit. 5.1 1 This is why the Commission cannot but strongly reiterate its recommendations that the Right to Education be enforced, if the nation is to prove its seriousness in the effort to end chiId labour. (B) PREVENTION OF CONGENITAL MENTAL DISABILITIES 5.12 Following a communication received from a leading medical authority, the Commission has taken serious note of the wide prevalence of iron and iodine deficiency related health problems which result in larm-numbers of children in our country being born with mental disabilities. The communication asserted that iron and iodine deficiencies not only caused anaemia in expectant mothers, but also frequently lead to loss of life during delivery or the birth of children often condemned to suffer from mental disabilities.