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The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme was introduced by the Government of India in August 2004, then integrated in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan program, to provide educational facilities for girls belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, minority communities and families below the poverty line in Educationally Backward Blocks.
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In Tamil Nadu, the textile industry has the distinction of possessing the largest labor-intensive workforce after agriculture. This is due to the large number of medium and small manufacturing units located in 18 districts of Tamil Nadu.
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READ aims at building the textile workers community to respond to the human rights violation especially the labour rights violations that occur as the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the lockdown laid for the Covid-19 pandemic, the labour market of the textile industries had drastically affected in economic fall and has highly vulnerable to the labour rights violations like forced labour, child labour, labour trafficking, low wages, no social security, and job security.
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