Child Labour

-Evolution Stops Here

What is Child Labour?
 The term ‘child labour’ is often defined as work that deprives children of their
childhood, their potential and dignity and that is harmful to physical and mental
development.
 Obliging them to leave their school permanently.
 Worst forms of child labour include:

1. All forms of slavery

2. Child prostitution

3. Illicit activities e.g. drug trafficking

4. Hazardous work which will harm the health, safety or morals of children
Causes of Child Labour
Majority of the times, parents of children engaged
in child labour are reluctant to make their kids study
due to lack of money in the household.

Therefore to maximize their income, these parents

send their kids off to work at a very young age.

Some other factors include social norms condoning

them, lack of decent work opportunities for adults
and adolescents, migration and emergencies.

These factors are not only the cause but also a

consequence of social inequities reinforced by
discrimination.
Impact of Child Labour
Child labour is also linked to child trafficking and it always results in child abuse.
Trafficked children face all forms of abuse-physical, mental, sexual, and emotional. 
1. Health damage 

Victims of child labor usually suffer from depression and anxiety, pushing them to destructive habits
like smoking, alcoholism, or drug abuse. 

2. Employment 

Now, India has 60 million child laborers.  Imagine the losses India’s economy faces when successive
generations of children try to attend the formal workforce. Across industries, this means that the
potential talent of children who have been deprived of primary and secondary education will be lost.
Instead, they will only be capable of manual and tedious labor. 

3. Acceptance of child labor 

Today, child labor exists in many invisible forms. You ignore everyday incidents of child labor around

you, such as the children working as hawkers, or minors used as servants for work like cooking,
cleaning utensils and sweeping floors. Even our festive fireworks are made using child labor. 
Child Labour Laws
Child Labour (Prohibition and
Regulation) Amendment Rules,
2017  • Article 21 A: Right to Education
• Framework for prevention, prohibition,
rescue and rehabilitation of child and
adolescent workers.
• clarifies on issues related with help in
family and family enterprises.
• Further, it also provides for safeguards
of artists which have been permitted to
work under the Act.
• Provisions incorporating duties and
responsibilities of enforcement
agencies in order to ensure effective
implementation. 
Constitutional Provisions for Child
Upliftment  
 
• The  State shall provide free and
compulsory education to all children of
the age of 6 to 14 years in such manner
as the State, by law, may determine.  
• Article 24: Prohibition of employment of
children in factories, etc. 
• No child below the age fourteen years
shall be employed in work in any factory
or mine or engaged in any other
hazardous employment. 
Story of Sahab-e-Alam
 Story of Saheb –e-Alam a 10 year old rag picker from distant village of Dhaka
left home because of storms and settled in Delhi in miserable condition with
10,000 rag pickers who live there in structure with roof made of tin and
tarpaulin.
 All the families are devoid of drainage systems. They are living here for
more than 30 years without any identity and permit .They have ration cards
having names and which enabled them to bring grains.
 Saheb had got a new job at a tea stall and was earning rupees 800 a month
with three meals but he was not happy .
Story of Mukesh
 A bangle maker who worked in factory of bangles in Firozabad .
 He does not want to adopt this ancestral and hazardous
profession.
 For children working in the glass furnances with high
temperature have great chance of losing their eyesight in the
factories.
 His house way starts from stinking lanes blocked by garbage.
Doors are unsteady and no windows .His houses half built rough
hut and roof covered by dead grass.
Inferences from the Chapter
 Anees Jung has tried to highlight
the plight of life of poor people
and the children who are
exploited either by their
uneducated and poor helpless
parents and the society ,who
employ them as child labourers.
 Spring of life refers to
happiness ,lost spring is lost
happiness.
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