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DONE BY:- Srijay

WHAT IS CHILD LABOUR

The term child labour is often defined as work that deprives children of
their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to
physical and mental development.
It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally
dangerous and harmful to children; and interferes with their schooling by
depriving them of the opportunity to attend school; obliging them to
leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to combine school
attendance with excessively long

CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR

The presence of a large number of child labourers is regarded as a serious
issue in terms of economic welfare. Children who work fail to get
necessary education. They do not get the opportunity to develop
physically, intellectually, emotionally and psychologically.In terms of the
physical condition of children, children are not ready for long monotous
work because they become exhausted more quickly than adults. This
reduces their physical conditions and makes the children more vulnerable
to disease.Children in hazardous working conditions are even in worse
condition.[Children who work, instead of going to school, will remain
illiterate which limits their ability to contribute to their own well being as
well as to community they live in

LAWS FOR PREVENTION OF

CHILD LABOUR
In 1979, the Indian government formed the Gurupadswamy Committee to
find about child labour and means to tackle it. The Child Labour
Prohibition and Regulation Act was enacted based on the
recommendations of the committee in 1986. A National Policy on Child
Labour was formulated in 1987 to focus on rehabilitating children working
in hazardous occupations.The Ministry of Labour and Employment had
implemented around 100 industry-specific National Child Labour Projects
to rehabilitate the child workers since 1988.

EFFECTS OF CHILD LABOUR ON

THE GROWTH OF A NATION
For us to succeed in our mission to #EndClassroomHunger, we need to understand the very serious
issue of child labour in India.
According to the Census of India 2011 there are 43.53 lakh children between the age group of 5-14
years employed in various occupations. Although this figure has reduced drastically compared to
the results of the Census of India 2001 which calculated 1.26 crore working children from the same
age group, India still has a long way to go to become child-labour free.
Child labour is most prevalent in third world countries where poverty is rampant. Because parents
lack the skills and opportunities to provide adequately for their families, children have to take up
employment to help the household make ends meet. In an alternative form of child labour that is
often ignored, children also frequently stay at home to look after their siblings and manage
household chores, freeing their parents to work the whole day. This means that they have to drop
out of school (or never enroll in the first place) to take their place as earning members of the family.
Child labour has consequences that are hard to imagine. Like a domino it has the power to tumble
national progress, innovation, social security and many other factors if left unaddressed.

THE INCIDENT OF CHILD LABOUR

THAT CAME ACROSS MY RESEARCH
Silk weaving
A 2003 Human Rights Watch report claimed children as young as five years
old were employed and worked for up to 12 hours a day and six to seven
days a week in silk industry.These children, HRW claimed, were bondedchild
labour in India, easy to find inKarnataka,Uttar PradeshandTamil Nadu.
In 2010, a German news investigative report claimed that in silk weaving
industry, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had found up to 10,000
children working in the 1,000 silk factories in 1998. In other places,
thousands of bonded child labour were present in 1994. After UNICEF and
NGOs got involved, after 2005, child labour figure is drastically lower, with
the total estimated to be fewer than a thousand child labourers. The
released children were back in school, claims the report.