It has also assured admission on priority basis to 15 children of sex workers, pending since August 1998, in boarding schools managed by the social welfare directorate.

The assurance was given by Delhi Health and Urban Development Minister A K Walia and Employment Minister Krishna Tirath at a meeting with a delegation of the Bharatiya Patita Uddhar Sabha yesterday, Sabha President Khairati Lal Bhola said.

The mobile dispensary is to be deployed within a fortnight in the red-light areas and will remain there from morning till sunset to provide better health services and check the spread of AIDS.

Bhola said Trirath has directed officials to find out the position of vacant seats in all village cottage homes so that children of sex workers could be given admission on priority basis.