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By Express News ServiceHYDERABAD: As Operation Muskaan continues to rescue children forced into labour from across the State, the national portal for reporting child labour — PENCIL — gathers dust. The online portal, PENCIL which stands for Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour, in the two years of it’s operation, has received only 34 complaints from different parts of the State. Of these 34, not a single child has been rescued till date. “The attitude of the labour department is poor in terms of both understanding the issue and giving a response. They need to understand that like any other social crime, child labour or bonded labour has to be addressed within 24 hours or the whole scenario changes..