Child labour in India Child labour in India is the practice where children engage in economic activity‚ on part or full-time basis. The practice deprives children of their childhood‚ and is harmful to their physical and mental development. Poverty‚ lack of good schools and growth of informal economy are considered as the important causes of child labour in India. The 2001 national census of India estimated the total number of child labour‚ aged 5–14‚ to be at 12.6 million.Child labor problem is
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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 Labor – A Challenge the World is Facing Childhood is the most innocent stage in a human life. It is that phase of life where a child is free from all the tensions‚ fun-loving‚ play and learns new things‚ and is the sweetheart of all the family members. But this is only one side of the story. The other side is full of tensions and burdens. Here‚ the innocent child is not the sweetheart of the family members‚ instead he is an earning machine working the entire day in order to satisfy the needs
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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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Why Child Labor should be stopped Child Labour is one of the saddest issues the world is facing. Many children all over the world start earning at the age which is actually meant to play‚ study and learn. This age is to enjoy and have fun with friends‚ and not to pull rickshaws or clean cars and autos. Child Labor deprives a child from the basic rightof education. Moreover‚ child labour is not the need of the society as well. Already most of the countries are facing unemployment and
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ANOTHER DIMENSION TO CHILD LABOUR: COUNSELLING IMPLICATIONS OMONI‚ G. E. PhD Institute of Education‚ Delta State University‚ Abraka email: egonomoni@yahoo.com and IJEH‚ S. U. Mrs College of Education Agbor Abstract The issue of child labour is an acclaimed universal phenomenon. This paper examines the reason for child labour‚ the types‚ problems‚ consequences and possible solution strategies. Specifically‚ the paper critically discusses the positive aspects of child labour and how it can be properly
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Child Labour Many people around the world think that child labour is something that only happened in the pass.These people are mistaken. They would be astonished if they actually knew the true figures of children that suffer and are exploited daily by people who make the work outrageous hours for hardly any reward. Around about 246 million children are enforced in child labour. Many of these helpless children not only have to deal with the amount of work that has been given to them by their
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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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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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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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