In a move to eliminate child labour, 80,000 working children will be integrated with mainstream education by 2007 under an Indo-US project.

The three-year-long INDUS project, launched in February, 2004, as a follow-up of a joint statement on ‘Enhanced Indo-US Cooperation on Eliminating Child Labour’, is aimed to ensure elimination of child labour from hazardous occupations, a release said in New Delhi on Monday.

The US Department of Labour is providing $20 million, which will be matched with an equal amount from India, for the project being implemented in 21 districts in NCT of Delhi, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.

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