Child Labor in India - Causes of Child labor in India

Child labour in India

What is child labour?
Child labour is done by any of the child who is under the age specified by law. The child who work to feed self or for family is being subjected to child labour. Some of child labours are forced to work by their family and surrounding. In India can see many child labours in north side like Mumbai, Kolkatta. It is obligatory for all countries to set a minimum age for employment according to the rules of ILO written in convention 138(C.138). The shocking unpleasant form of child labour is prostitution and modeling for child pornography.

Today Child labour
Child labour becomes development issue, effecting all over the world. Due to child labour children not receiving education, good behavior which is very important to growing child. It is serious problem in India, with child labour under the age fourteen who works in firework factories, carpet factories, etc., which cause disease and harm to children. According to statistics there are 20 million child labours are working in India. Child labour also prevent in rich countries compared to poor countries. IT is estimated that there are 60 to 115 million working children in India, which was the highest in 1996 according to human rights. Child also is also gender specific, with more boys than girls employed in laborious activities. Livelihood considerations can also make a child into a form of child labour like child prostitution and begging.

Causes of Child labour
Common cause of child labour is poverty, illiteracy, lack of education. This cause affects not only particular child and also the society. It also affects development of nation. Poverty and over population have been identified as the two main causes for child labour. Illiterate parents do not understand about knowing and emotional development of their children. Uneducated parents don’t realize about their children’s education. Absence of compulsory primary education also cause for child labour.

Policies of Child labour in India
1. Article 14 (No child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other danger employment.
2. Article 39-E ( The state shall direct its policy towards securing that the health and strength of workers, men and women and the tender age of children are not abused and that they are not forced by economic necessity to enter vocations unsuited to there are and strength.
3. Article 39-F (Children shall be given opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and that childhood and youth shall be protected against moral and material abandonment.
4. Article 45 ( The state shall endeavor to provide within a period of ten years from the commencement of the constitution for free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of fourteen years. The main legislative measures at the national level are The Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act – 1986 ant The Factories Act – 1948 .

Child labour in Silk Industry
Hundreds and Thousands of children are working in silk industry, they treat as slaves. Indian government is not able to do anything to protect their rights. Children who work in silk factory are kept behind covers by being pushed into individual homes. Tamilnadu in south India is the home of the largest number of bonded children.

Child labour in Indian sweet shops
Indian shops are well known for profiting from child labour which is equivalent to slavery. They also use small children for manufacturing process to get profit. Children between eleven and thirteen are makes painful in these shops.


Stop Child labour
The future of society is in the hand of children. This fact is beautifully expressed by Wordsworth in his famous lines “child is the father of a man”. So it is the major problem for nation to protect children against child labour, by providing free education, awareness for child labour. Child labour laws strictly implemented at central and state levels. The reasons giving birth to child labour are poverty, illiteracy, scarcity of schools, ignorance, socially regressive practices, blind customs and traditions, migration and last but not the least corruption amongst employees and government labour organizations. People should not be able to get away with employing and exploiting children.

[seimens]

Due to poverty , many place in india 'a child labour is encouraged ',this shouldn't be keep on processing.the current government in india should take a strong action against the issue of child labour.i totally oppose the encouragement of child labour. the children should be given a right to learn.this is a serious issue,this may lead day by day .then one day india would become a illiterate country.