Child labour is the practice of having 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. The child labour problem is not unique to India;
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Child Labour Child labour is one of the topic that presents strong emotions‚ beliefs and opinions. Most people are opposed to the involvement of children in labour force activities when they are at an age when other activities‚ such as education and play‚ should be the central role in development. However‚ child labour represents an extremely difficult and complex issue which often extends beyond emotions‚ beliefs and opinions. Much of this has to do with the understanding that a wide variety
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REPORT ON CHILD LABOUR “A Project Report of Environmental Education Submitted to the Principal of Gangadhar Meher Junior College‚ Sambalpur for the session 2009-10” GANGADHAR MEHER JUNIOR COLLEGE SAMBALPUR SUPERVISOR SUBMITTED BY : _______________ Md. Sultan Lect. In Environmental Education +2 1st Year Arts. G.M. Junior College‚ Sambalpur Roll No – Sec – ‘ ’ AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT To prepare a status report on the prevalence of child labour in a given
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Child Labour in India central question: To what extent are the indigent people in India dependent on child labour? Child labour (in general): The term is used for illegal constant employment of children beneath the age defined by law. For most countries including India this limit is set to the age of 14. "Child labor" is work for children that harms and exploits them in a physical‚ mental and moral way. They work under conditions that are considered illegal‚ hazardous‚ and extremely unequal
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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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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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Name: Li Jiayu Is it acceptable for companies to employ child labour/very low wage labour? Answer Shell International Limited(SI) (2000) mentions that child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour‚ it is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in a lot of countries. Due to the detrimental consequence for the children who are engaged in the excessive and dangerous levels of work‚ one of the most disastrous effects reflects
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CHILD LABOUR “The rising sun of a nation when works in dark furnaces‚ it blinds future of the nation.” The problem of child labour came in consideration in mid-19th century when first factory was established. It is an unfortunate manifestation of economic compulsion as well as socio cultural perceptions. Child labour is a complex problem which is deeply rooted on ground of poverty. India doesn’t have appreciable position in terms of child labour and according to the surveys; India has the largest
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A Child Labour Problem In India. After independence Child labour is a major problem in India. The major determinate child labour is Poverty. Even though children are paid less then adults‚ what ever income they earn is of benefit to poor families. India has the largest number of children employed than any other country in the world. According to the statistics provided by the Govt. of India around 90 million out of 179 million children in the six to 14 age groups do not go to school and are engaged
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investigate what has caused child labour to become a glaring issue in our society until the present day and look at possible solutions. A lot has been done but little achieved in this ongoing fight. Many international organisations such as ILO and UNICEF are deeply concerned by rising child labour in Afghanistan‚ Pakistan and India to name but a few. Children work for many reasons‚ the most important being poverty and the pressure suffered by them to escape from it. Many of these children endure
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