Significance of the PENCIL Portal
- It will ensure the right to education and life for many children who are victims of human trafficking.
- This will help in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- It is helping to reduce and eliminate child labor in India.
- This will improve coordination and thus improve the implementation of various projects related to child labor.
- This will benefit the poor of India and will help strengthen law and order.
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).