India - Inglese

70 boys ‘rescued from sweat shop’

[Times - World]

<b>DELHI</b> Children’s rights activists said that they had rescued 70 boys who were embroidering garments in small, squalid factories in the Indian capital. The boys, aged 8 to 14, were mostly the children of farmers in Bihar, India’s poorest eastern state. They had been brought to Delhi to make saris worn by Indian women. Gulzar Ahmed, 12, said that he was paid 3,000 rupees (£36) a month for working up to 15 hours a day. The activists, from the Save the Children Mission, said that the children would be returned to their parents. The Indian Government has accused activists of exaggerating the problem of child labour. (AP)