300 child labourers sent back home

RATNANAGAR: Among the children working as domestic help in Ratnanagar of Chitwan, around 300 have been sent back home.

According to Social Section chief at the Ratnanagar Municipality, Tejendra Lamichhane, out of 984 child labourers in Ratnanagar, around 300 were domestic helps.

Lamichhane said a total of 284 domestic child workers have been sent back home by organising different programmes.

Children above 14 years of age were sent back home by providing income-generating training and other children below 14 years were handed over to their families.

A large number of children are working as labourers in Bharatpur, Ratnanagar, Narayangadh, Parsa, Lothar and Bhandara areas, it is stated.