HYDERABAD, Jan 27: More than 10,000 children are working in the city’s bangle industry and 30 per cent of them are suffering from dangerous diseases. This was stated at a training workshop “how to end child labour” held here on Saturday in connection with the golden jubilee celebrations of the Hyderabad press club.

The workshop was jointly organised by the National Rural Support Programme and the press club.

Speakers said that the law to eliminate child labour was very much there on the statute books, but the labour department was doing nothing to enforce the law.

NRSP project manager Ali Nawaz Nizamani said that with the cooperation of ILO, the organisation was jointly working with the district government to eliminate child labour in the city.

He said that child labour could not be eliminated 100 per cent, but it could be considerably reduced with the cooperation of departments concerned.

He said that as far as the ILO was concerned, it only formulated policies, but the implementation of policies was left to the government.

Mr Nizamani said that as many as 108 schools had been set up for child working in bangle industry where 3,290 children were studying.

He said that the district government had appointed a committee which was rendering good services for the education of child labour.