Components of the PENCIL Portal
The PENCIL portal has the following component :
1. Child Tracking System:
The child monitoring is done at the district manager level or through the record card maintained by the NCLP project manager. The progress of the child is recorded quarterly on the index card. It also helps migrant children to continue their education.
2. Complaint Corner:
This feature allows anyone to file a complaint about incidents of child or youth labor, which will be forwarded to the governor of the county concerned. Upon receipt of the complaint, Node Security checks the authenticity of the complaint with the participation of the police and other interested parties. The district head will have to decide on the possibility of rehabilitating the rescued child or adolescent within 48 hours from the date of delivery of the first act.
3. State Government:
The portal provides access to a government resource center that monitors the implementation of the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 2016 and the NCLP system.
4. National Child Labour Project:
NCLP publicizes reports and financial statements on the Pencil website.
As per NCLP guidelines, the company submits project and financial reports.
5. Convergence:
The rescued children aged 5-8 years have been admitted to Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) school. The rescued children between 8 and 14 are admitted to the Special Training Center of NCLP. The rescued adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 are admitted to the Saksham Skill Development Centre.
PENCIL Portal
In June 2017, India ratified two significant conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO): Working Age Convention no. 138 and Agreement on the Worst Forms of Child Labour. 182, which reflects the country’s desire to rule without child labor. The main goal of the National Child Labour Program (NCLPS), launched in 1988, is to appropriately rehabilitate children who have been put out of work to reduce child labour in areas with a high concentration of child labour.
Portal for Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour (PENCIL) is an electronic platform that aims to engage the Centre, States, Countries, Governments, civil society, and the general public toward the goal of a child-labor-free society. The Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, has launched the Child Labour Effectiveness Platform (Pencil).