Annual Report 1999-2000 7.4 Fifty-one out of a total of 83 districts of UP have been declared child labour prone districts. The UP Government has provided a corpus of Rs. 1 crore for creating the Child Rehabilitation-cum-Welfare Fimd in pursuance of the orders of the Supreme Court. District Societies for the abolition of child labour, with the Collector/DM as Chairperson, ChiefDevelopment Officer as Member Secretary andrepresentatives from all departments involved with the enforcement of the Child Labour Act under the directions of the Supreme Court, have been constituted in all the districts. Twenty-one of these societies have already been registered under the Society Registration Act, 1860. They have received an initial grant of Rs. 5 lakh each for the Child Labour Rehabilitation-cumWelfare Fund. 7.5 The UP Labour Department, on the advice of the NHRC, carried out two surveys to assess the incidence of child labour in the State. The first survey was done from 1January 1999 to 15 March 1999 and the second fi-om 1November 1999 to 3 January 2000. The results are shown helow: Child Labour identified: □ Hazardous a Non-hazardous 10,778 9676 Number of employers 3539 Number of families of identified children 6318 Hi. Notices issued 2485 iv. Prosecution launched 1244 Recovery certificates issued 1086 Children admitted to schools 3875 i. ii. V. vi. vii. Employment provided to affected families 154 7.6 The experience gained during the period under report is that the prosecution of cases instituted against the employers have been slow. The recovery of amounts at the rate of Rs. 20,000/- per child fixim the offending employers has been affected because of the stays on a number of cases of Recovery Certificates (RC) issued by the UP High Court. Though the follow-up action is found to be slow, the Commission has found that the District Authorities were fully alive to their responsibility. It has therefore noted, that the directions of the Supreme Court would be complied with fiilly. During the Special Rapporteur's visits to the Districts of the carpet belt in Uttar Pradesh, 3591 children were detected to be in hazardous occupations. Over 1000 of them have already been admitted to non-formal schools. Eighy-four of the 2649 affected families have received the benefit of employment of one member each; and 350 RCs have been issued to recover a total amount of Rs. 12,720 lakhs of which 67 have been stayed by the High Court. Recovery effected so far amounts to only Rs. 60,000/-. The DMs have been given specific targets and time schedules for ensuring compliance of the directions of the Supreme Court. 60