ANANTAPUR: The child labourer who suffered serious injuries and whose hand was crushed in an accident at a sponge iron ore unit in Nemakal in Bommanhal mandal in Rayadurgam area in the district has been restored his hand, thanks to specialists who tended to him at a hospital in Bengaluru.
Surgeons fixed the crushed hand to the boy, it is learnt.
The Deccan Chronicle brought into limelight the miserable plight of G.
Gopal, 14, of D.Hirehal whose hand got crushed in a machine last week. He also suffered major injuries to other parts of his body.
The management immediately rushed the victim to a private hospital at Bellary in Karnataka and reportedly tried to ‘settle issue.’ However, once this paper drew public attention to the horrific incident, officials of
labour department, police and other departments concerned rushed to the accident site and booked cases against the management.
Bommanhal police registered a case against the sponge iron ore unit. The labour department was called out by the district authorities for not
properly enforcing the ‘Operation Muskaan’ launched across the state a couple of days earlier to curb the practice of employing child labour. The boy’s mother Lakshmi is a jogini and depends solely on her son to eke out a living.
The factory management was pressed to get proper treatment for the boy at a super specialty hospital in Bengaluru. Plastic surgeons there succeeded in attaching the crushed hand to the boy.
