Real hero Saroja amma is fighting child labour in Karnataka's silk industries. According to the Census 2011, 12.6 million children work as labourers in India. India has the highest number of child labourers in the world, according to UNICEF.
In the silk twisting units of Magadi, thousands of children are put to work for their nimble fingers. They toil away for long hours, their frail bodies bent over in low-lit factories. Saroja organised raids and rescued over 1200 children between 1999 and 2005.
May God bless her!
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