CHILD LABOUR

Group Members
Arihant 00
Ashish 18
Valentine 00
Rohan 00
 A Picture
is worth a thousand words
Some Sweet Ones
Some Bitter Ones
 Child
Child labour
labour
Definition
A child labour….

 is under the age of eighteen.

 receives extremely little or no pay.
 is controlled by violence or other threats.
 has no option to leave the situation.
 has no access to education or health care.
The Vicious Cycle

Lack of
Education
Poverty

Child Labor
 Child Labour Fact
Sheet
• 73 million working children are less than 10 years old.

• While buffaloes may cost up to 15,000 rupees , children are sold at prices
between 500 and 2,000 rupees.

• 47 out of 100 children in India enrolled in class I reach class VIII, putting
the dropout rate at 52.79%.

• Approximately 16.64% of villages in the country do not have facilities for

primary schooling. (According to UNICEF)

• 42 million children in the age-group 6-14 years do not attend school in

India.
 Causes of Child
Labour
• OVER POPULATION: limited resources and more mouths
to feed, Children are employed in various forms of work.
• ILLITERACY :Illiterate parents do not realize the need for a
proper physical, emotional and cognitive development of a
child.
• POVERTY: Many a time poverty forces parents to send their
children to hazardous jobs.
• URBANIZATION: MNC's and export industries in the
developing world employ child workers, particularly in the
garment industry.
 Causes of Child
Labour
• ORPHANS: Children born out of wedlock, children with no parents and
relatives, often do not find anyone to support them. Thus they are forced to
work for their own living.
• WILLINGNESS TO EXPLOIT CHILDREN: This is at the root
of the problem Even if a family is very poor, the incidence of child labour
will be very low unless there are people willing to exploit these
children.
• UNEMPLOYMENT OF ELDERS: Elders often find it difficult to
get jobs. The industrialists and factory owners find it profitable to employ
children. This is so because they can pay less and extract more work. They
will also not create union problem.
 Causes of Child
Labour
Dysfunctional families:
In dysfunctional families, when a parent spends all their money on
gambling, drinking, or other harmful addictions, the child may be
forced to work, or even leave the family, when there are cases of
abuse.
The consequences and effects of child labour

Even though most children do not feel coerced and are proud of their
contribution to family income, child labour has many consequences on
children:
They do not get the chance of a decent
education, since they do not go to school
or cannot concentrate in class, thus
creating a future illiterate and/or ignorant
population.
Many jobs are dangerous and can permanently harm the child’s health,
from poisonous chemicals to dust or workplace accidents, or simply by
placing too much strain on their growing bodies;

Child labour generally leads to the abuse of those children, which

causes mental and emotional instability in them;
• Children who start working at a young age also become mentally and
emotionally mature too fast, as well as responsible. This implies that the
child will become burdened in an age when he or she should have fun
and play, losing one of the most critical phases of life – childhood;

• The child, who is uneducated, becomes

burdened to a life of hard, unskilled and
badly paid work;

• Therefore, child labour creates and perpetuates poverty.

• In the end, each generation will have child labour as a result of poor
families.
 The Constitution of India
"The State shall endeavor to provide
within a period of ten years
from the commencement of this Constitution,
free and compulsory education
for all children
until they complete the age of 14 years."

Directive Principles of State Policy, 1950

“No child below the age of 14 years shall be employed
to work in a factory or mines or engaged in any
other hazardous employment”{article-24}.
 THE CHILD LABOUR
(Prohibition and Regulation) ACT, 1987

National Policy on Child Labour was

formulated in 1987.

• PENALITIES:
• Section-3 shall be punishable with imprisonment which shall
• not be less than three months which may extend to one year or with fine
• which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees but which may Extend to twenty
thousand rupees or with both
 2. Groups and governments against child labour

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international agencies, such as the

International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the UNICEF began to attract world
attention to child labour.

Several conventions and international programs were approved:

◦ Scheme for Working Children in need of care and protection

◦ Integrated Programme for Street Children
◦ Shishu Greha Scheme
◦ General Grant-in-aid Scheme
◦ CHILDLINE-24 hour help line for children in distress
◦ Rajiv Gandhi national crèche scheme for the children of working mothers
 4. How citizens can help?

Citizens can help eliminate child labour by different ways:

-join anti-child labour groups;

-spread information about this issue;
-participate in campaigns about this topic;
-don´t buy products made by children or when there is no guarantie
that children were not involved in the production of the item;
-organize debates and activities on the topic of child labour;
-communicate to the proper autorities, in case of knowing a child labor
victim or company that employs minors;
-sign on line/local petitions against child labour.
Children are remarkably imaginative and
resilient - but also heartbreakingly fragile
and vulnerable.

“ So let us share their dreams

And shape their future ” .