Keraniganj becoming child labor free

Dhaka, December 6: The Ministry of Labour and Employment held a stakeholder meeting to eliminate child labour by 2025 to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 8 at the initiative of UNICEF Bangladesh. Five strategic plans were presented in the meeting to make the country free of child labor within the next 3 years. It is reported that the work of building the first model child labour free district by implementing the Keraniganj project in the outskirts of the capital is going on in the space and sector-wise planning.