Around 47,441 students passed out of under SRCLs since inception.

ISLAMABAD -- A total of 47,441 students have been passed out so far under the Schools for Rehabilitation of Child Labor (SRCLs) initiative of the Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM), since the inception of this project.

According to an official source, SRCLs is a PBM initiative to pull out children from labor and to impart them education, in line with the United Nations and other International Labor Organization Conventions. At present, 18,488 children are enrolled in these schools.

So far, 159 Schools for the Rehabilitation of Child Labours are functional all over the country including 46 in Regional Office-Lahore, 20 in Regional Office-Multan, 37 in Sindh, 24 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 14 in Balochistan, 13 in Islamabad Capital Territory/Azad Jammu Kashmir and five in Gilgit-Baltistan.

The children involved in child labor are enrolled in these schools and free education is imparted up to the primary level.

They are provided free books, stationery, uniform, shoes and a Rs.10 daily stipend/parents subsistence allowance of Rs. 300 per month.

According to the last four years' statistics, a total of...