Article By – Ana Minal Zehra,

Class – 11 A (Huminities)

The International Labour Organization
(ILO) defines child labour as 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 and heavy work.
and today in the building of an ethical and governments, employers and workers in its
productive framework for a fair globalization. executive bodies.
The Constitution of the ILO was drafted in
“हर देश तर से ब त दूर रहेगा |
early 1919 by the Labour Commission, chaired by
Samuel Gompers, head of the American ब ा जो पड़ने वाला मजदूर रहेगा || ”
Federation of Labour (AFL) in the United States. It “Child labour depriving educa on
was composed of representatives from nine Falling in inelaborate na on”
countries: Belgium, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France,
Italy, Japan, Poland, the United Kingdom and the Nearly 1 in 10 children are subjected to
United States. child labour worldwide, with some forced into
hazardous work through trafficking.
Members of the Commission on
International Labour Legislation to the Paris

As the ILO celebrated its 100th

anniversary in 2019, it is timely to reflected on
the many life-changing events which are linked to
the ten decades of ILO history.
Peace Conference. Samuel Gompers in the first
The Organization has played a role at key row, third from the left. The process resulted in a
historical junctures – the Great Depression, tripartite organization, the only one of its kind,
decolonization, the creation of Solidarność in bringing together representatives of
Poland, the victory over apartheid in South Africa

Article 2314 of Indian Constitution
prohibits the trafficking in human beings and
forced labour. And Article 2415 prohibits the
employment of children below 18 in factories. It
says that No child below the age of fourteen
years shall be employed to work in any factory or
mine or engaged in any other hazardous
employment viz domestic and others type of Gas
plant industries as well as highly inflammable
liquid petroleum industries , fireworks, mine ,
high voltage electric work, chemical/ fertilizers
factories, pharmaceutical companies etc.
*As per census 2011
Article By – Ana Minal Zehra,
Class – 11 A (Huminities)
Government has accordingly been
taking proactive steps to tackle this problem
through strict enforcement of legislative
provisions along with simultaneous
rehabilitative measures. State Governments,
which are the appropriate implementing
authorities, have been conducting regular
inspections and raids to detect cases of
violations. Since poverty is the root cause of
this problem, and enforcement alone cannot
help solve it, Government has been laying a lot
of emphasis on the rehabilitation of these
children and on improving the economic
conditions of their families.
We can reduce/ eleminate the child labour
from the country by strictly implementing
child labour act 1986 amended in 2016,
providing education by strictly implementing
RTE (Right to Education), 100 percentage
implementation of governmet schemes on the
grass root level, by removing poverty, by
controling on population , by making equality
in earning and by camping to the parents of
bad effects of the child labour.
*As per census 2011