PENCIL PORTAL

About: 

• Full Name: Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour (PENCIL).
  
  
• Launched in: 2017. 
  
  
• Objective: It is a separate online portal to ensure effective enforcement of the provisions of the Child Labour Act and smooth implementation of the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme. 
  
  
• Components: The PENCIL Portal (pencil.gov.in) has various components, namely Child Tracking System, Complaint Corner, State Government, National Child Labour Project and Convergence. 
  
  
• Features: 
  • The Portal connects Central Government to State Government(s), District(s), all Project Societies and the General public. 
    
    
  • Further, online complaints regarding child labour can also be filed by anybody on the Pencil Portal. The complaint gets assigned to the concerned Nodal Officer automatically by the system for further necessary action. 
    
    
  
  
  
• Implementation status: Of the 1010 complaints of child labour received on PENCIL, the District Nodal Officers have updated the status in respect of 361 complaints as resolved.