Annual Report 2008-2009 Indian Penal Code, Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, Factories Act, Shops Act and the Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act is instituted. 7.35 A Resolution dated 25 April 2006 (bearing No. CLA – 2006 (299)/Kamgar 7A, Mantralay, Mumbai) has also been issued by the Government of Maharashtra. The central objective of the Resolution is to make Maharashtra free of child labour. The Resolution envisages constitution of a District Level Task Force under the direct control and supervision of the District Collector. The composition of the said Task Force is quite broad based and is expected to maintain considerable vigilance and surveillance over the existence, continuance and perpetuation of child labour. The Resolution for the first time has removed the differential or discriminatory treatment meted out to children employed in hazardous and non-hazardous work. It very clearly states that even if the child is engaged in non-hazardous occupation(s) he/she shall be rescued from the employer and handed over to the police so that each one of them is eventually educated. The Resolution for the first time recognizes the concept and practice of child bonded labourers. For example, if parents take any kind of loan/advance from any contractor and mortgage the services of their children to such contractors, the children will be treated as child bonded labourers and a report to this effect shall be filed before the District Collector and a copy endorsed to the State Government through the Commissioner of Labour. It reiterates the importance of recovering a sum of Rs. 20,000/- each from every offending employer who is responsible for engaging a child in hazardous work and depositing the same in the District Child Labour Welfare-cumRehabilitation Fund as decreed by the Supreme Court on 10 December 1996 in CWA No. 465 of 1986 (M.C. Mehta vs. State of Tamil Nadu). Likewise, it has reiterated the importance of providing employment to every able bodied adult member in a family who have been sending their child for work, failing which a sum of Rs. 5,000/- per child would be deposited in the said District Child Labour Welfare-cum-Rehabilitation Fund as decreed by the Supreme Court in the aforementioned judgement. 7.36 After Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra is the other State which has formulated a State Level Action Plan for elimination of child labour. The Plan has been formulated in the context of Government Resolution Number CLA – 2006 (299) Kamgar – 7A dated 25 April 2006 and the directions contained in the Supreme Court judgement dated 10 December 1996. C. Workshop on Bonded and Child Labour 7.37 A one-day Workshop was organized at Chandigarh on 21 April 2008 for sensitization of State and District level functionaries on elimination of bonded and child labour. This Workshop was convened under the chairmanship of Justice Shri Y.Bhaskar Rao, Member, NHRC. Subsequently, a spate of district level workshops on the same subject was organized in all the Districts of Haryana State. ******** 105