The industrial establishments at Juginagar under Ward No 74 of Sutrapur thana in the city will not accept under-aged child workers in the evening shifts, owners and entrepreneurs pledged at a meeting in Dhaka on Wednesday, reports BSS.

Vice chairperson of the vigilance committee of the Juginagar Multipurpose Centre of the ILO-IPEC/WFCL action Programme and journalist Mrs Momtaj Bilkis Banu chaired the meeting.

Assistant programme coordinator of RIC Abdur Rashid, organizing secretary of the owner’s association of Bangladesh Engineering Industries Ali Akbar, local politician Tunu and member of the mosque committee Shamsuddin Ahmed Laskar, among others, took part in the discussion.

The speakers opined that the child labour should be eliminated from the high-risk areas in the hazardous industrial establishments. They urged all to come forward in elimination of this social problem.