Probe into child labour in Indian sports goods industry

The International Labour Organisation and Indian sports goods manufacturers are conducting a joint survey to establish the number of children employed in the country's sports goods industry.

The survey will cover more than four-thousand homes and many factories in the city of Jalandhar in Punjab -- the main base of the industry in India.

The move follows a report by the charity organisation, Christian Aid, last year that many children -- some as young as seven -- were being employed to stitch footballs for export to Britain.

The manufacturers described the report as misleading.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service