In the export of woollen and cotton rugs and carpets, Mirzapur and Agra, stand out as the largest exporters in the country.
But lately, the carpet export of these towns, especially Mirzapur, has suffered significantly due to the strong measures taken by the European Union and the United States against buying products manufactured in factories employing child labourers.
This has given the state a negative reputation of employing maximum number of child labourers in the country.
Taking strong measures against the employment of child labourers in the carpet, shoe and glass industries and other small scale industrial units, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to start a state-wide rescue and rehabilitate programme and impose heavy penalties on such industrial units to dissuade them from re-employing children.
Uttar Pradesh Labour Commissioner Sharda Prasad said so far the state had rescued about 150,000 child labourers from industrial units, including a large number of carpet factories.
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