TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CHILD LABOUR

The Child Labour Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) has been set up in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Child Labour (prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986. As per Section 5 of the Act,

(i)         The Central Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, constitute an advisory committee to be called the Child Labour Technical Advisory Committee (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Committee) to advise the Central Government for the purpose of addition of occupations and processes to the Schedule.

(ii)        The Committee shall consist of a Chairman and such other members not            exceeding ten, as may be appointed by the Central Government.

(iii)       The Committee shall meet as often as it may consider necessary and shall have power to regulate its own procedure.

(iv)       The Committee may, if it deems it necessary so to do, constitute one or more sub-committees and may appoint to any such sub-committee, whether generally or for the consideration of any particular matter, any person who is not a member of the Committee.

(v)        The term of office of, the manner of filling casual vacancies in the office of, and the, allowances, if any, payable to, the Chairman and other members of the Committee, and the conditions and restrictions subject to which the Committee may appoint any person who is not a member of the committee as a member of any of its sub-committees shall be such as may be prescribed.

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2.         The Committee was first constituted on 03.08.1987 and last reconstituted on05.02.1996.

3.         The Committee consists of a Chairman and nine other members. All the members of the committee are technical experts, majority from medicine, except for the JS, In charge of Child Labour Division in the M/o Labour.

4.         At present, the composition of the committee is as follows:

1.         D.G., Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi-Chairman.

2.         Add!. D.G., Health Services, Govt. of India, New Delhi-Member

3.         D.G. FASLI, M/o Labour, Mumbai                     - Member

4.         Director, National Institute of Occupational Health         - Member

5.         Director, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow-Member

6.         Director, Ballabh Bhai Patel Chest Institute, New Delhi-Member

7.         Director, Paediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi                           -Member

8.         Director, Medical Services, Tamilnadu                                -Member

9.         Director, Medical Services, Uttar Pradesh                          -Member

10.       Joint Secretary/Incharge of Child Labour Division               -Member

5. As of now, a total of 13 occupations and 57 processes have been included in the Schedule to the Act and Section 3 of the Act prohibits employment or work of a child in any of these occupations or processes.

6.         The Last addition in the list of occupations/processes in the Schedule was effected

vide Gazette notification dated 10.05.2001.

7.         The last meeting of the Committee was held on 25.04.2002.