ld La CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA: CAUSES‚ MAGNITUDE AND POLICIES DR. ANJALI PRASAD Department of Economics T.P.S. College‚ Patna The existence of child labour is a slur on a modern welfare state which seeks to promote the all round development of its citizens. Children are the future hope of the society. They are like buds‚ which need to be properly nursed and well‚ taken care of so that they bloom fully‚ grow into able human beings‚ and contribute
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Primary causes International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggests poverty is the greatest single cause behind child labour.[14] For impoverished households‚ income from a child’s work is usually crucial for his or her own survival or for that of the household. Income from working children‚ even if small‚ may be between 25 to 40% of these household income. Other scholars such as Harsch on African child labour‚ and Edmonds and Pavcnik on global child labour have reached the same conclusion.[13][52][53]
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CHILD LABOUR “The child is the father of man”. This famous line quoted by William Wordsworth refers to the importance of the child for the development of society as well as for the all round development of human race. Childhood is the time to garner the best physical‚ (ADJECTIVE) intellectual (ADJECTIVE) and emotional (ADJECTIVE) capacity to fulfill this duty towards the nation and to one’s own self. However‚ this simple rule of nature has been crippled by the ever growing menace of child
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ELIMINATING CHILD LABOUR: DO NGO INTERVENTIONS ADD UP TO A STRATEGY? Rekha Wazir* The involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in child labour is fairly recent but it is steadily growing in momentum. However‚ only a few NGOs have succeeded in achieving recognition in this field at the national level. This paper starts by reviewing a number of inter-linked background factors that circumscribe and curtail the activities of NGOs. This is followed by an analysis of the strategies
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CHILD LABOUR Children are the most important asset of any nation. Each child is an asset to the society. The future welfare of society is closely related to the welfare of the child. Children are the future of the nation. They are flowers of our national garden. It is our duty to protect these flowers. Child labour is a socio-economic problem. Child labour is not a new phenomenon in India. From ancient times‚ children were required to do some work either at home or in the field along with their
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of their normal childhood like us. They cannot go to school or play with their friends like we do. They are denied opportunities for growth‚ development‚ learning etc. They are subjected to hard labour with meager wages. What is the reason for this? Poverty!‚ yes poverty is the main reason for Child Labour in India and in many developing countries. Children have to work all through the day and many times during night to feed themselves and to support their family. Most parents of these children are
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Child Labour Defination Wordsworth has said: “The child is father or the man.” Children are our future. Now when they are so important‚ we must realize what are doing for them. Have we succeeded in providing them the basic necessities of life such as education and health care? Although the government NGOs and other organizations are busy in solving the problem of child labour yet nothing seems to have come out of their work. Poverty is the main case of this failure. The poor parents are
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THE CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) ACT‚ 1986 (ACT NO. 61 OF 1986) [23rd December‚ 1986.] An Act to prohibit the engagement of children in certain employments and to regulate the conditions of work of children in certain other employments. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: -- PART I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title‚ extent and commencement. -- (1) This Act may be called the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act‚ 1986
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Child labour Considerable differences exist between the many kinds of work children do. Some are difficult and demanding‚ others are more hazardous and even morally reprehensible. Children carry out a very wide range of tasks and activities when they work. Not all work done by children should be classified as child labour that is to be targeted for elimination. Children’s or adolescents’ participation in work that does not affect their health and personal development or interfere with their
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Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood‚ interferes with their ability to attend regular school‚ and that is mentally‚ physically‚ socially or morally dangerous and harmful.This practice is considered exploitative by many international organisations. Legislations across the world prohibit child labour. These laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists‚ supervised training‚ certain
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