2. Child Labour In India
BY:
KhushbooChauhan
3. CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA
4.
- Child is Treasure of our Society
Child is a pylon of our society. They are future of any
developing as well as developed country, so literally they are
treasure of society.
5. HISTORY BEHIND
During theIndustrial Revolution, children as young as four were
employed in production factories with dangerous, and often fatal,
working conditions. The children of the poor were expected to help
towards the family budget, often working long hours in dangerous
jobs and low wages.In England and Scotland in 1788, two-thirds of
the workers in 143 water-poweredcotton millswere described as
children.
By 1900, there were 1.7 million child labourers reported in
American industry under the age of fifteen. The number of children
under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed
to 2 million in 1910.
6. Who is child labour?
ILO defines child labour as :
child labour means work done by children under fifteen. Exception
is made of work done by children with their parents at home is so
far an aid in the latters work is concerned and child is not
deprived of the possibility of going to school
7. Who is child labour?
Convention on Right of the child under Article 32 of UN convention
Define child labour as:
any economic exploitation or the work that is likely to be
hazardous or which interferes with the childs education or is
harmful to the childs health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral
or social development
8. LAWS IN INDIA
Way back in 1979, Government formed the first committee called
Gurupadaswamy Committee to study the issue of child labour and to
suggest measures to tackle it
In consonance with the above approach, aNational Policy on Child
Labourwas formulated in 1987.
- The Action Planoutlined in the Policy fortackling this problem
is as follows:
Legislative Action Planfor strict enforcement ofChild Labour
Actand other labour laws to ensure that children are notemployed in
hazardous employments.
- Focusing of General Developmental Programmes for Benefiting
Child Labour-This action plan emphasizes the need to coverthese
children and their families also under various poverty alleviation
and employment generation schemes of the Government.
9. Project Based Plan of Action:Envisages starting of projects
in areas of high concentration of child labour. Pursuant to this,
in 1988, theNational Child Labour Project (NCLP)Scheme was launched
in 9 districts of high child labour endemicity in the country.
