Child labourers are engaged in Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana work at Dulkibandh village under Kalampur block of Kalahandi district. The road work is under Dharamgarh Rural Development Department.
The Labour Directorate, Odisha has directed all other departments to not engage child labourers. But child labourers were engaged in the bridge work of Pradhanmantri Sadak Jojana under Rural Development Department Dharamgarh. Both girl and boys under 14 years of age were engaged in the bridge work. But no officer or involved engineers of the Department stopped the children from the work.
