Child Labour in India

Dr. Hanumant Yadav

HNLU, Raipur
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Child Labour
CHILD HAS BECOME AN
IMPORTANT SOCIAL ISSUE
IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY LIKE
INDIA
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Child Labour
Child labour represent a fundamental abuse of
children rights which are a violation of
various laws.
Many working children are engaged in
occupations that negatively affect there
physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and
are below their minimum age for employment
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Child Labour in India
According to the amendment in child labour act
1986, a ban is imposed on employing children
Age group between 5-14 years
More than 120 million children's around the world
44million children's in India
U.P. has the highest number of child labours
More than 80% are employed in villages, that also in
agriculture and non-formal activities like livestock
rearing, fishing etc
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Child Labour : Facts
According to the Indian census of 1991, there are 11.28
million working children under the age of fourteen
years in India.
Over 85% of this child labour is in the country's rural
areas, working in agricultural activities such as fanning,
livestock rearing, forestry and fisheries.
The worlds highest number of working children is in
India. ILO estimates that 218 million children were
involved in child labour in 2004, of which 126 million
were engaged in hazardous work.

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Child Labour : Facts
The Hindi belt, including Bihar, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, account
for 1.27 crore working children in the country,
engaged in both hazardous and non-hazardous
occupations and processes.

Over 19 lakh child labourers in the 5-14 age
group are in Uttar Pradesh.
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Child Labour : Reasons
Poverty is the main push factor
Parental illiteracy
Absence of universal compulsory Primary
education
Ignorance of the parents about the adverse
consequences of child labour
Lack of educational facilities or poor quality of
education
Employers prefer children as they constitute
cheap labour and they are not able to
organize themselves against exploitation

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Child Labour : Law
Recognizing the increasing problem of child
labour in India, the Parliament passed The Child
Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986.

The purpose of this Act was to declare child
labour as illegal and make it a punishable act by
any citizen of India. The Act is to bring to the
notice of the people of this nation that there are
child labour laws to protect the child.
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Child Labour (Prohibition and
Regulation) Act, 1986
No child shall be employed or permitted to
work in any of the occupations set forth in
Part A of the Schedule or in any workshop
wherein any of the processes set forth in Part
B of the Schedule is carried on.
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Child Labour : Law
The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation)
Act 1986 prohibits employment of children below
the age of 14 years in any factory or any
hazardous employment
Any person who employs child he is liable for
punishment with imprisonment for 3 month
which can be extended to 1 year or Rs. 20,000
fine.

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Part A Schedule : occupations
(1)Transport of passengers, goods or mails by railway;
(2) Cinder picking, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in
the railway premises;
(3) Work in a catering establishment at a railway station,
involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of
the establishment from one platform to another or into or out
of a moving train;
(4) Work relating to the construction of a railway station or
with any other work where such work is done in close
proximity to or between the railway lines;
(5) A port authority within the limits of any port.



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Part B schedule : occupations
(1) Bidi-making.
(2) Carpet-weaving.
(3) Cement manufacture, including bagging of cement.
(4) Cloth printing, dyeing and weaving.
(5) Manufacture of matches, explosives and fire-works.
(6) Mica-cutting and splitting.
(7) Shellac manufacture.
(8) Soap manufacture.
(9) Tanning.
(10) Wool-cleaning.
(11) Building and construction industry.

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