Presentation Prepared by: TY BMM Students Lord

College.
Sandeep
Pooja
Jason
Smita
Lalit

Child Labour is employing children

who are under aged (generally 5-14
years old) to work as determined by
the laws of the state. This practice is
considered to be
Exploitative in many countries and
international organizations
Labour work harms children
Keeps them out of school
Allows no free time
Hampers their growth
Impacts their minds and hurts
them both mentally and physically.

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 job.
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.

 Child labour deprives a child of a proper

childhood.
He suffers physical and mental tortures .
Exhaustion and Malnutrition are a result
of underdeveloped children performing
heavy manual labour, working long hours in
unbearable conditions.
Adult unemployment.
He/she becomes mentally and emotionally
mature too fast which is a dangerous sign

Few Industries in
which child labour

Causes Health
hazards like

Fireworks & explosives (Sivakasi)

Burns and risk of accidents.

Glass and Bangles (Ferozabad)

Asthma , T.B , Eyeproblems.

Beedi Making (Nizamabad)

Carpet Making (Varanasi)

Gem Polishing , Export Industry

(Jaipur , Rajasthan)

Tuberculosis.

Lung diseases , Eye defects.

Eye defects.

64 million child laborers in the age group of a 5-14 are

in India.
In India , every fourth child in the age group of 5-15 is
employed.
Over 20% of the countrys GNP is contributed by child
labour .
A quarter of the worlds total number of child laborers are in
India.

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10 million bonded child laborers working as

house servants in India.
Over 85 % of this child labor is in the country's
rural areas.
5,00,000 children are forced into this trade
every year.

Way back in 1979, Government formed the

first committee called Gurupadaswamy
Committee to study the issue of child labour.
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.
Project Based Plan of Action: Envisages starting of projects in areas of high
concentration of child labour. Pursuant to this, in 1988, the National Child Labour Project
(NCLP) Scheme was launched in 9 districts of high child labour endemicity in the country.

OBJECT To prohibit the engagement of children in certain

employments and to regulate the conditions of work or children in certain
other employments.
DEFINITION (CHILD)- Child means a person who has not completed his
fourteen years of age.
APPLICABILITY In extends to the whole of India .
WEEKLY HOLIDAY Every child shall be allowed in a week a holiday of
one whole day.
HOURS & PERIOD OF WORK The period of work on each day shall
not exceed 3 hours .
AND no child Shall be required or permitted to work overtime.

Some child workers themselves

think that illegal work should
not be considered in the
definition of "child labor.
The reason: These child
workers would like to be
respected for their legal work,
because they feel they have no
other choice but to work.

Increased family incomes

Education that helps children learn skills that will help them earn a living
Social services that help children and families survive crises, such as
disease, or loss of home and shelter

Family control of fertility so that families are not burdened by children

WHY SHOULD WE CARE ?

Many children in hazardous and dangerous jobs
are in danger of injury or even death . They are supposed to sit at
home , play with their friends , build their health , develop their
personality, learn culture and load themselves with knowledge.

How can ordinary people help to reduce child labour ?

- Learn about the issue.
- Support organizations that are raising awareness.
- Provide direct help to individual children.

The Question is notWho is to be held responsible for the situation ?

Decades have been lost
over it and yet no fruitful
step has yielded out.

The question should be

Are we ready to change their lives for the better future? If not
,then it is high time for all of us to reach out our helping hands
to them and get them out of this wrath at the earliest.