Smriti Irani urges citizens to dial 1098 for alerting authorities against child labour

Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani has appealed to the citizens of the country to report any untoward activity of child labour. The union minister urged citizens to dial 1098 to report complaints about child abuse and child labour. Days ago Irani had posted a video on Twitter appealing everyone to rise against child abuse and to report incidents of abuse by dialling 1098.  

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Celebrities share Irani's message

Bollywood celebrities such as Kartik Aaryan, AR Rahman, Shekhar Kapur, Huma Quereshi and Kalki Koechlin were among the few who shared Irani's message, promoting the helpline number and urging everyone to report such incidents.

AR Rahman and Shekhar Kapur have been instrumental in the production of the hard-hitting video too. The Bollywood celebrities shared the video depicting the physiological torture which children go through in cases of domestic abuse at home or when they are made to carry out work, apart from the emotional and physical abuse they are subjected to in such cases. The video urged all to save these children's childhood by calling at the helpline number 1098.

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