ANNEXURE 1

QUESTIONNAIRE ON CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA

Name :

Age :

Sex :

Educational qualification :

1. Will children be worse off if they don’t work ?

 Yes
 No
2. What do you think the reason of the child labour ?
 Poverty
 Education
 Political system
 Culture
3. If children don’t work will their families starve ?
 Yes
 No
4. Is child labour serious in your hometown ?
 Yes
 Not so much
 No
5. Will child labour decrease as poor countries develop ?
 Yes
 No
6. What kind of industry mostly appear child labour ?
  Agriculture
 Textile
 Household
 Fire cracker
 Carpet fiber
 Garment

7. Will high economic growth through globalization solve the problem ?

 Yes
 No
8. Why are children forced to do labour ?
 Lack of money
 Considered nil importance of education
9. Which social evil are children most vulnerable to in child labour ?
 Drugs
 Sexual abuse
 Violence crimes
 Various diseases such as AIDS/HIV
10. With development of science and technology what do you think is the growth in child
labour?
 Decrease
 Increase
 No change
11. Is poor education a cause of child labour ?
 Yes
 No
12. Do you know any NGO working for rights of child labour ? if yes how many of them you
know ?
 1
  2
 3 or more
 None
13. Is there any existing act in Indian constitution which protects child labour?
 Yes and efficient
 Yes and inefficient
 No but would be efficient if existed
 Do not know anware of any
14. How acceptable is children below the age of 16 to work?
 0
 1
 2
 3
 4