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17‣ Such children and their parents would be issued child health cards toprioritize the accessibility of health facilities to them. Regular healthcheckups for such children and their siblings would be undertaken attheir rehabilitation centres and/or close to their place of residenceafter they have been rescued.‣ Being exposed to work environment at a young age leads to poorpsychological development of the children. Thus, it is important tohave these children being put under surveillance of Psychiatrists andstress counselors wherever available. Health Department wouldprovide the required services.‣ The children are liable to acquire multiple infectious and micronutrientdeficiencies. Therefore, such children would be given adequatemedical care and nutritional rehabilitation under the guidance of aMedical Officer/ Pediatrician.‣ The department through its various schemes and initiatives wouldplay a key role in addressing health issues of working children. Thedepartment would issue health cards to the child labour and his/herfamily members for getting free treatment including free medicinesand hospitalization in all Government hospitals/dispensaries in theState. The department would also provide free medical check up tothe migrant child labour brought from other states and arrangeregular health checkups for the children studying in the NCLPSchools.For this purpose, the department would put in place an effective monitoringmechanism, build the capacity of the functionaries responsible toimplement these provisions and work in close cooperation with the LabourResources Department to achieve synergy on child labour issues.5.3.6 Human Resources Development Department:A child getting into labour can not be viewed merely a personal problem or‘individual tragedy’ of the child; rather it is a matter of right, a ‘publicconcern’ and challenge to the civilized world. In a civilized world, the realplace of a child, boy or girl, is the school and play ground but not a workplace where he is forced to toil hard for eking out a pittance for living. Infact, it is the right of the child to be in school and a duty cast on allstakeholders to make it happen. Hence, the public concern and challengeis universalizing elementary education, which is, achieving the goal ofquality education for all the children, boy or girl, of 6-14 age groups. Thischallenge, to a great extent, requires addressing the systemic issuesconfronting school system and facilitating the child to access the schoolwithout any difficulty.17