CHILD LABOUR :

CRITICALLY ANALYSIS
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• DEFINITION
Child labour has become a biggest Social issue in India which needs to be solved on regular basis.

Children are preferred as they are not unionized, can be easily controlled, tortured, and exploited
without any fear of backlash.
The importance of education is neglected for the child and replaced with necessity of providing food and
shelter i.e. children work to supplement meagre family income or otherwise to help the family business.
 WHAT IS CHILD LABOUR?
• Child labour typically means the employment of children in any manual work with or without
payment.
• As far as India is concerned, the issue is a vicious one as children in India have historically
been helping parents at their farms and other primitive activities
• UNICEF has categorized child work into three categories
• Within the family
• Within the family but outside the home
• Outside the family
 CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR
• The curse of poverty
•Lack of educational resources
•Social and economic backwardness
•Addiction, disease or disability
•Poor compliance of laws
•Lure of cheap labour
•Family tradition
•Discrimination between boys and girls
 STATISTICS OF CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA

• There are five states which are India's biggest child labour employers - Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.  Over half of India's total child labour
population works here. India's biggest hub of child labour is Uttar Pradesh and it accounts for
almost 20% of India's child labourers.
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14 POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT ON THE ISSUE OF CHILD LABOUR
• Article 15(3)  

• Article 21
• Article 21 A
• Article 23
• Article 24
• Article 45
• The factories act, 1948 
• The Mines Act, 1952
 POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS TO CHILD LABOUR

•   the child labour as it will encourage more

Creating more unions may help in preventing
people to help against child labour.
• Child labour needs high level social awareness with the proper statistics of huge loss in the
future for any developing country.
• Family control will also help in controlling the child labour by reducing the families burden
of child care and education.
• Child workers should be replaced by the adult workers as almost 800 million adults are
unemployed in this world. In this way adult will get job and children will be free from child
labour.
• Business owners of factories, industries, mines, etc should take the pledge of not involving
children in any type of labour.
 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

• Child labour is a big social problem which needs to be solved on urgent basis by the support
of both, people (especially parents and teachers) and government. Children are very little
however they carry a prosperous future of any developing country.
• They should get proper chance to develop and grow within the happy environment of family
and school.
• They should not be limited by the parents only to maintain the economical balance of the
family and by the businesses to get labour at low cost.
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