Annual Report 2012-2013 Verma Committee on Amendments to Criminal Law. The same was also forwarded to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat that had invited suggestions on the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2012 for examination by the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs headed by Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Member Parliament, Rajya Sabha. 2.33 The Justice Verma Committee submitted its report to the Government of India on 23 January 2013. In the light of Justice Verma Committee's report, the Government of India has promulgated the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013 on 3 February 2013. Some of the recommendations/suggestions made by the Commission find place in the Ordinance. National Conference on Missing Children 2.34 The Commission organized a National Conference on Missing Children in New Delhi on 15 January 2013. The main objective of the Conference was to discuss the status of compliance of NHRC's earlier suggestions/recommendations and advisories issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on missing children and also decide upon the future plan of action for tackling the problem of these children. National Seminar on Human Rights and Ecological Balance : A Dialogue 2.35 The above Seminar was organized by the Commission in collaboration with Saurashtra University, Rajkot on 4 and 5 March 2013. Prof. Nand Kishore Acharaya from International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad delivered the keynote address in the seminar. Other eminent persons who spoke in the two-day seminar were Justice K. G. Balakrishnan, Chairperson, NHRC; Dr. M. K. Padalia, Vice-Chancellor, University of Saurashtra and Shri A. K. Shrivastava, Joint Secretary, NHRC. NHRC Workshops on Bonded and Child Labour 2.36 The NHRC has been supervising the implementation of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 and the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 in the country ever since it was constituted in 1993. During the period under review, it organized three workshops under the chairmanship of Justice Shri B. C. Patel, Member, NHRC on 'Elimination of Bonded and Child Labour' in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Kurukshetra (Haryana) and Indore (Madhya Pradesh) in collaboration with the respective State Governments on 7 and 21 September 2012 and 15 February 2013. The objective of these workshops was to sensitize District Magistrates, Sub-Divisional Magistrates, Members of Vigilance Committees, and Officers of State Labour Department on identification, release and rehabilitation of bonded labour as well as existing forms of child labour, sectors of the economy in which children work, constitutional and legal safeguards prohibiting employment of children and legislations that aim at elimination of child labour in the country. NHRC 11