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CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA
Child is Treasure of our Society …
In consonance with the above approach, a National Policy on Child Labour was formulated
in 1987.
The Action Plan outlined in the Policy for tackling this problem is as follows:
Legislative Action Plan for strict enforcement of Child Labour Act and other labour laws to
ensure that children are not employed in hazardous employments.
Focusing of General Developmental Programmes for Benefiting Child Labour - This
action plan emphasizes the need to cover these children and their families also under various
poverty alleviation and employment generation schemes of the Government.
Education Suffers
Ponder…
Your mission
To analyse causes for child labour in
your village
Find solution to eradicate child labour
Develop plan of action
Create awareness to local people on
the importance of education and
child’s right to education
Persuade local audience and rope in
their support to combat child labour
problem by mobilising opinion
Your Role
You will be working as
agents of International
Labour Organisation
How do you go about?
Collect the database of school drop-outs
Interview and collect data
Analyse reasons for child labour in your village
Research on Internet referring to the list of
websites to gather information on child labour
and strategies adopted by other countries to
combat the problem
Suggest strategies and find solution to the local
problem
Share your ideas on a blog
How do you go about? Contd…
Develop plan of action to address child
labour problem
Organise an awareness rally to create
awareness to local people on the
importance of education and child’s right
to education
Persuade local audience and rope in their
support to combat child labour problem
by mobilising opinion
Child labour has been among and with us in
the very society we live in. But we have rarely
paid heed to them. And we have tried to look
at them we have turned our back because we
have been guilty at the heart somewhere..