Thanks to social media post, Andhra HRD Minister Lokesh helps save eight-year-old boy from child labour

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Andhra Pradesh HRD Minister Nara Lokesh intervened after a social media post highlighted an eight-year-old boy allegedly being made to work grazing animals. Authorities are preparing to place the child in a tribal welfare hostel, and police have booked a case against his uncle.

In the viral post, the boy, left in the care of his uncle by poverty-stricken parents, is found grazing animals and crying to be taken home; on the Minister’s instructions, authorities are preparing to admit the boy in tribal welfare hostel; Maddipadu police book case against the boy’s uncle