Child Labour! When we hear than itself arises so many questions. Why India is still facing the problems of child labour. Still in our country why children are indulged in child labour.
REASONS FOR CHILD LABOUR-
One of the most significant reasons for the child labour are increasing poverty, large size family, they are the only wage earners. Another reason is that vested interests deliberately create child labor to get cheap labour as a factory hand, a domestic servant or a shop assistant.
PREVALENCE OF CHILD LABOR-
Child labor in India is not limited to only a few extents like agriculture but it is also included in many other fields. In recent times children are engaged in activities like Beedi making, bricks kilns, carpet weaving, commercial sexual exploitation, construction, fireworks and matches factories, dhabas, hotels, hybrid cottonseed production, leather, mines, quarries, silk, synthetic gems, etc.
Some of the industries that employ children as labourers include match industry in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, glass industry in Firozabad, brassware industry in Moradabad and the handmade carpet industry in Mirzapur Bhadoi, precious stone publishing industry in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
CONDITIONS FOR CHILD LABOR-
The condition for child labor is so bad that the children working have sunken chest and thin bone frames. They do work in very bad and inhuman conditions due to this they are contacted with the various disease. Mainly these children are school dropouts or have not seen school yet.
MANY LAWS BUT NO IMPLEMENTATION-
Apart from the enactment of the Child Labour ( Prohibition and Regulation ) Act, 1986, the Indian Constitution has incorporated various provisions against child labour such as the following :
According to Article 24, no child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or in any hazardous employment ( but not in non – hazardous industries).
As per Article 39(f), childhood and youth are to be protected against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment.
Article 45 stipulates that the state shall endeavour to provide within a period of 10 years from the commencement of the constitution free and compulsory education for all children until they complete the age of 14 years.
The Mines Act of 1952 prohibits the employment of children below 18 years of age in a mine. Also, various laws and the Indian Penal Code, such as juvenile justice (care and protection ) of children Act – 2000, and the Child Labour ( prohibition and abolition )Act -1986 seek to prevent the practice of child labor in India .unfortunately there are many laws but there is no proper implementation of these Laws.
CONCLUSION-
Government authorities and civil society organizations need to work in tandem to free children engaged in labor under abysmal conditions. They need to be rescued from exploitative working conditions and supported by adequate education.
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