SIALKOT, Sept 23: The government is committed to eliminate child labour with the cooperation of private sector.

This was stated by labour advisers Raja Faizul Hasan Faiz and Dr Qaiser Bangali at a seminar on child labour held at the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday. They also visited various industrial units in the city.

They hailed sincere efforts of the business community in purging the football industry of the menace of child labour.

They said the government was intending to expand Sialkot’s Child Labour Elimination Programme throughout the country in active collaboration with private sector to meet the WTO challenges.

They said they would plead business community’s demand for government funding for the existing child labour programme in Sialkot.

Addressing the meeting Independent Monitoring Associ-ation for Child Labour’s Nasir Dogar said the IMAC has sped up the pace of monitoring various work place in the rural areas.

Sialkot has been described as a model for the developing world after the successful completion of child labour eradication programme launched jointly by the ILO, Unicef and the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry.