Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Union Labour and Employment Ministry Rameshwar Teli provided data to the Lok Sabha where it stated that the number of children rescued or withdrawn from work has increased for the past four years.
According to the reports, the data revealed that in 2020-21, over 58,000 children were rescued across India from work, rehabilitated and mainstreamed under the National Child Labour Project. While the Congress MP Vishnu Prasad M K Madhya Pradesh accounted for half the rescued children that year, Rameshwar Teli responded with all the facts and figures.
He said in reply to a question about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child labour that the number of children rescued and mainstreamed had been 58,289 in 2020-2021, an increase from 54,894 in 2019-2020, 50,284 in 2018-2019 and 47,635 in 2017-2018.
