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Child Labour in India: Causes & Impact

This document summarizes child labor issues in India. It defines child labor as work performed by children under 18 that receives little or no pay and prevents access to education. Over 3.5 lakh children were enrolled in national child labor projects in 2007-08. Key industries that use child labor include fireworks, gemstone polishing, carpet weaving, and domestic work. Children in these industries often work long hours in hazardous conditions for low pay and experience health issues. Poverty, lack of education, and ineffective laws are cited as causes of child labor in India.

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Child Labour in India: Causes & Impact

This document summarizes child labor issues in India. It defines child labor as work performed by children under 18 that receives little or no pay and prevents access to education. Over 3.5 lakh children were enrolled in national child labor projects in 2007-08. Key industries that use child labor include fireworks, gemstone polishing, carpet weaving, and domestic work. Children in these industries often work long hours in hazardous conditions for low pay and experience health issues. Poverty, lack of education, and ineffective laws are cited as causes of child labor in India.

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CHILD LABOUR IN

INDIA
CHILD LABOUR
A child labour
 Is under the age of eighteen

 Receives extremely little or no pay

 Is controlled by violence or other threats

 Has no option to leave the situation

 Has no access to education


ILO distinguishes child labour from economically
active children by asserting that a child above the
age of 12 who does light ,part time work, that is not
hazardous may be economically active but is not to
be counted as a child labourer

Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act


1986,
 seeks to prohibit employment of children below 14
years in hazardous occupations and processes and
regulates the working conditions in other
employments.
 Recently, Government has also decided to include
children working as domestic servants and those
working in dhabas/roadside eateries/motels etc. in the
category of hazardous occupations.
CAUSES
 Poverty
 Over population
 Parental illiteracy
 Lack of education
 Ineffectivity of child labour laws
CONSEQUENCES
 Physical injuries
 Growth deficiency
 Long-term health problems
 Illiteracy
NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR
PROJECTS
2007-08
NCLP Districts 237
Number of Child Labour 3.59 Lac
Budget 138.5 Crore

2008-09
NCLP Districts 300
Number of Child Labour 4.95 Lac
Budget 233 Crore
FIREWORKS INDUSTRY
 50,000 to 1,00,000 child workers
 55 percent of the workers are below 14 years
 Children carried in buses from their villages
to the work sites between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.
in the morning and return home between 6
p.m. and 9 p.m.
 Children dye outer paper, roll gun powder,
make firecrackers, dip material into
chemicals, and pack the final products for
seven to twelve hours a day
 Children earned Rs 8-15 per day.
 Children were paid on a piece rate basis
which varied between boys and girls
 Hazardous work environments in match and
firework factories, including highly
inflammable chemicals spread on the
unprotected floor have resulted in fatal
accidents
GEMSTONE INDUSTRY
 Around 6,000 and 1,00,000 children are working in the
diamond industry.
 Children between 12 and 13 years of age polish
diamonds for seven to nine hours a day.
 There are two categories of children working in the gem
industry in Jaipur:
1) Children from 6 to 10 years old belonging to
families of manual laborers and poorly paid
people.
2) Children from 10 to 14 years old belonging to
families with a fairly steady income.
 Major health and safety troubles are
eyestrain, headaches, leg and shoulder pain,
malaria, discoloration of hair, rotten teeth,
and dysentery.
 Doctors in the area revealed that more than
30 percent of the children get tuberculosis,
seemingly due to unhygienic conditions,
overcrowding, and malnutrition
CARPET INDUSTRY
 3,00,000(approx.) children, as young as 6
years of age work in this industry.
 Working hours: 6-12 hours per day
 Tasks include sorting, knotting, cutting,
washing, and dyeing
 Child carpet weavers typically fall into four
categories: unpaid children working on family
looms, unpaid children working with adult
family wage earners, unpaid apprentices (for
approximately one year), and wage earners.
 Average daily wage 12 rupees.
 Often both adults and children are paid per
square yard, which makes them work very
long hours.
 Over 90 percent of the children complained of
swelling of lower limbs and severe pain in the
joints.
 Children also came into constant contact with
woolen fluff causing skin troubles including
scabies and respiratory ailments
DOMESTIC HELP
 23 August,2009: Urvashi Dhanorkar
 25 August,2009: Suchitra Krishnamurthy
THANK YOU

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