Lucknow, May 27 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has set a target of making the state free from child labour by the year 2027.

Unprecedented coordination has been established between the departments of Education, Women and Child Development, Panchayati Raj, Home, Health, Social Welfare, Rural Development, Urban Development, and Vocational Education under the leadership of the Labour Department to achieve the goal.

To deal with challenges like a lack of data and retention of children in schools in the path of eliminating child labour, the government has taken concrete and innovative steps, which are taking Uttar Pradesh towards an empowered and prosperous society.

The biggest challenge of eliminating child labour has been the unavailabil...