Cyberabad Police have said that as many as 300 children, including 267 boys and 33 girls, have been rescued from child labour, begging and rag picking between July 1 and 18. A total of 282 children (251 boys and 31 girls) were sent to shelter homes and 18 children (16 boys and 2 girls) were handed over to their parents.

World Day Against Child Labour is observed every year on June-12. It is an International Labour Organisation-sanctioned holiday that was first launched in 2002 to bring attention and join efforts to fight against child labour. This year's World-Day Against Child Labour theme is "children shouldn't work in fields, but on dreams." According to International Labour Organisation, today 152-million children are still in child labour.