ADC chairs district vigilance committee meeting.

SIALKOT -- Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Finance Sialkot Syeda Amina Maududi has said that it is a crime to employ minors in houses, shops, industries, kilns and workshops saying that children should not be in any place other than school during school hours.

She expressed these views while addressing the participants in an awareness meeting of the district vigilance committee for anti-human trafficking/bonded labour.

Deputy Director Labor Muhammed Tayyab Virk, SDPO Muhammed Tariq, Deputy Director Social Welfare Sharif Ghumman, members of the committee Mirza Abdul Shakoor, Ashfaq Nazar and people belonging to different social organisations participated.

Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Finance said that in order to protect minors from forced labour and exploitation, every member of society will have to play its role and help them in every possible way. She said that kilns and workshops would be inspected and if minor children of the kiln workers were present at the kilns during school hours, cases...