This document summarizes information about child labor. It discusses causes of child labor like poverty, illiteracy, and overpopulation. It describes how child labor is exploitative and prevents children from attending school. Hazardous industries that employ child labor are mentioned along with related health issues. Statistics about the prevalence of child labor in India are provided. The Child Labor Act that aims to prohibit child labor and regulate work conditions for children is summarized. Reasons for child labor and ways the public can help address the issue are discussed.
This document summarizes information about child labor. It discusses causes of child labor like poverty, illiteracy, and overpopulation. It describes how child labor is exploitative and prevents children from attending school. Hazardous industries that employ child labor are mentioned along with related health issues. Statistics about the prevalence of child labor in India are provided. The Child Labor Act that aims to prohibit child labor and regulate work conditions for children is summarized. Reasons for child labor and ways the public can help address the issue are discussed.
This document summarizes information about child labor. It discusses causes of child labor like poverty, illiteracy, and overpopulation. It describes how child labor is exploitative and prevents children from attending school. Hazardous industries that employ child labor are mentioned along with related health issues. Statistics about the prevalence of child labor in India are provided. The Child Labor Act that aims to prohibit child labor and regulate work conditions for children is summarized. Reasons for child labor and ways the public can help address the issue are discussed.
who are under aged (generally 5-14 years old) to work as determined by the laws of the state. This practice is considered to be Exploitative in many countries and international organizations Labour work harms children Keeps them out of school Allows no free time Hampers their growth Impacts their minds and hurts them both mentally and physically.
OVER POPULATION :- Limited resources and
more mouths to feed, children are employed in various forms of work. ILLITERACY :- Illiterate parents do not realize the need for a proper physical, emotional and cognitive development of a child. POVERTY :- Many a time poverty forces parents to send their children to hazardous job. ORPHANS :- Children born out of wedlock , children with no parents and relatives, often do not find anyone to support them .Thus they are forced to work for their own living.
Child labour deprives a child of a proper
childhood. He suffers physical and mental tortures . Exhaustion and Malnutrition are a result of underdeveloped children performing heavy manual labour, working long hours in unbearable conditions. Adult unemployment. He/she becomes mentally and emotionally mature too fast which is a dangerous sign
Few Industries in which child labour
Causes Health hazards like
Fireworks & explosives (Sivakasi)
Burns and risk of accidents.
Glass and Bangles (Ferozabad)
Asthma , T.B , Eyeproblems.
Beedi Making (Nizamabad)
Carpet Making (Varanasi)
Gem Polishing , Export Industry
(Jaipur , Rajasthan)
Tuberculosis.
Lung diseases , Eye defects.
Eye defects.
64 million child laborers in the age group of a 5-14 are
in India. In India , every fourth child in the age group of 5-15 is employed. Over 20% of the countrys GNP is contributed by child labour . A quarter of the worlds total number of child laborers are in India.
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10 million bonded child laborers working as
house servants in India. Over 85 % of this child labor is in the country's rural areas. 5,00,000 children are forced into this trade every year.
Way back in 1979, Government formed the
first committee called Gurupadaswamy Committee to study the issue of child labour. In consonance with the above approach, a National Policy on Child Labour was formulated in 1987. The Action Plan outlined in the Policy for tackling this problem is as follows: Legislative Action Plan for strict enforcement of Child Labour Act and other labour laws to ensure that children are not employed in hazardous employments. Focusing of General Developmental Programmes for Benefiting Child Labour - This action plan emphasizes the need to cover these children and their families also under various poverty alleviation and employment generation schemes of the Government. Project Based Plan of Action: Envisages starting of projects in areas of high concentration of child labour. Pursuant to this, in 1988, the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) Scheme was launched in 9 districts of high child labour endemicity in the country.
OBJECT To prohibit the engagement of children in certain
employments and to regulate the conditions of work or children in certain other employments. DEFINITION (CHILD)- Child means a person who has not completed his fourteen years of age. APPLICABILITY In extends to the whole of India . WEEKLY HOLIDAY Every child shall be allowed in a week a holiday of one whole day. HOURS & PERIOD OF WORK The period of work on each day shall not exceed 3 hours . AND no child Shall be required or permitted to work overtime.
Some child workers themselves
think that illegal work should not be considered in the definition of "child labor. The reason: These child workers would like to be respected for their legal work, because they feel they have no other choice but to work.
Increased family incomes
Education that helps children learn skills that will help them earn a living Social services that help children and families survive crises, such as disease, or loss of home and shelter
Family control of fertility so that families are not burdened by children
WHY SHOULD WE CARE ?
Many children in hazardous and dangerous jobs are in danger of injury or even death . They are supposed to sit at home , play with their friends , build their health , develop their personality, learn culture and load themselves with knowledge.
How can ordinary people help to reduce child labour ?
- Learn about the issue. - Support organizations that are raising awareness. - Provide direct help to individual children.
The Question is notWho is to be held responsible for the situation ?
Decades have been lost over it and yet no fruitful step has yielded out.
The question should be
Are we ready to change their lives for the better future? If not ,then it is high time for all of us to reach out our helping hands to them and get them out of this wrath at the earliest.