68 Abolition of Child Labour and Bonded Labour CHAPTER 7 A] Abolition of Child Labour 7.1 The Commission has been making a major effort to have an impact on the child labour situation in Uttar Pradesh. Persistent endeavours to generate greater awareness and sensitivity in the District Administration and Labour Department of that State have begim to show positive results, particularly in the carpet belt. The Special Rapporteur of the Commission, Shri Chaman Lai, continued to make periodic visits to the districts of Allahabad, Varanasi, Bhadoi and Mirzapur and, based on his reports, the Commission issued specific directions to the State Government in respect of the detection and withdrawal of children employed in hazardous occupations/processes, the admission of such children into the formal and non- formal system of schooling, particularly the schools established under the National Child Labour Project, the economic rehabilitation of the affected families, and the prosecution of offending employers. 7.2 A total of 1,361 child labourers were detected in Uttar Pradesh in 2000-01 — 394 in hazardous and 967 in non-hazardous employment categories. Of them, 140 were from the six districts of the carpet belt. The children who were detected came from 325 families, including 98 from the carpet belt. Some 180 employers were involved, including 85 in the carpet belt. The prosecutions launched numbered 587, including 41 in the carpet belt. A total of 580 recovery certificates were issued, to realise Rs.20,000 per child from the offending employers; 176 of these pertained to the carpet NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION