Government Of Tamil Nadu

LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT

LETTER NO.56595/u/97-3,                                                                                                  DATED 10.3.98.

       From
       Thiru Debendranath Sarangi, I.A.S.,
       Secretary to Government.

 To

All the District Collectors (By RP/AD)

The Commissioner of Labour, Chennai-600 006.

The Chief Inspector of Factories, Chennai-600 005.

The Special Commissioner and Commissioner of Revenue

     Administration, Chennai 600 005.

The Accountant General, Chennai 600 018.

The Accountant General, Chennai (Audit) Chennai-600 035.

The Accountant General, (CAS), Chennai-600 009.

All the Treasury Officers.

The Pay and Accounts Officer (North), Chennai-600 079.

The Pay and Accounts Officer, Madurai.

Sir,

           Sub:  Child Labour – Directions of the Supreme Court of India on                          elimination of Child Labour in Writ Petition (Civil) No.465/86 –    Constitution of the District Child Labour Rehabilitation-cum-     Welfare Fund as to be administered by a District Child      Labour Rehabilitation-cum-Welfare Society – Orders –   Amendments – Issued.

                      Ref: G.O.Ms.No.155, Labour and Employment (U) Department,                    dated 23.1.97.

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           I am directed to inform you that the following amendments are issued to G.O.Ms.No.155, Labour and Employment dated 23.10.97.

 AMENDMENT

1. a.     The following shall be added at the end of para 10 of the said Government Order.  The expenditure from the above said fund shall be debited to.  “K Deposits and Advances (c) Deposits not bearing interest – 8449-00 Other deposits – 120 Miscellaneous Deposits BA District Child Labour Rehabilitation-cum-welfare Fund. (D.P.C.8449 00 120 BA 0008) (outgo)

  b. The following paragraph shall be substituted for the existing   para 11.   The State Government contribution at the rate of Rs.5000/- per child sanctioned above shall be debited to a new sub-head of   account to be opened under Demand 28 as detailed below:                     “2235 Social Security and Welfare – 02 Social Welfare –  102 Child Welfare Scheme in the Ninth Five Year Plan  II State Plan – KB Contribution for the District Child Labour    Rehabilitation-cum-Welfare Fund – 10 Contribution”  

                (D.P.C.2235 02 102 KB 1008)    by per contra credit to      “K Deposits and Advances (b) Deposits not bearing interest-        8449.00 Other Deposits – 120 Miscellaneous Deposits BA  District Child Labour Rehabilitation-cum-Welfare Fund -        (D.P.C.8449 00 120 BA 0000) (Receipts)

 c.     The following para shall be substituted for para 14 of the said Government Order.

 The expenditure sanctioned above shall constitute an item of ‘New Service’ and the approval of the Legislature will be obtained in due course by inclusion in the supplementary Estimate for 1997-98.  Pending approval of the Legislature, the expenditure shall initially be met by an advance drawn from the Contingency Funds of Tamil Nadu the sanction of which will be made by the Government in Finance (BG-I) Department.  The Commissioner of Labour, who is the estimating, reconciling and controlling authority as per para 12 above, is requested to apply to the Government in Finance (BG.I) Department, in the prescribed format for sanction of the advance from the Contingency Fund in a consolidated form, based on the reports received from the District Collectors on the collections of Rs.20000/- per child identified to have been employed in hazardous occupations/processes during the survey held in April 1997, enclosing a copy of this order.

2.   This letter issues with the concurrence of the Finance

                         Department vide its U.O.No.197/JE(C.M.S)/98, dated 9.3.98.