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CHILDLABOUR
Small People, Big Problems

 What is child labour? Why does it persists?
 Industries that employ children as workers.
 The importance of sending these children to
school.
 NGOs working on this issue.
 Schemes and policies of government to help
under-privileged children.
 Things we can do to help these poor children.

Child Labour
Child labour refers to the employment of children in any
work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes
with their ability to attend regular school, and that is
mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and
harmful.
This practice is considered exploitative by many
international organizations. Legislations across the world
prohibit child labour.
These laws do not consider all work done by children as
child labour; exceptions include work by child
artists, supervised training, certain categories of work such
as those by Amish children, and others.

Reasons Why Child Labour Persists
Child labour has been increasing steadily in the towns and
cities of developing countries as a result of the rapid
global urbanization. Urban working children are found
mainly in trade and services and to a lesser extent in the
manufacturing sector.
In manufacturing industries, children are most likely to be
employed when their labour is less expensive or less
troublesome than that of adults, when other labour is
scarce, and when they are considered irreplaceable by
reason of their size or perceived dexterity . Mostly , poor
children are engaged in such work .

Industries That Employ Children as Workers

Industries That Employ Children as Workers
Some of the industries that employ children as workers are-:
•Textile industries
•Automobile industries
•Departmental stores
• Some shops
• Small restaurants and tea and coffee stalls
•In some areas children are employed for breaking stones, in
places where bricks are made
Many other industries also employ children as workers were
child labour is less expensive than adult labour.

Industries that employ children as workers

Importance of Sending These Children to Schools

Importance of Sending These Children To School
It is very important for these children to go to school
because if they don’t go to school , they would not be able
to live a good life , they will destroy their childhood as
well as their future . They won’t be able to learn manners
, they won’t know that what is good and what is bad .
Childhood is the time to play , study enjoy etc. and not to
do some work in a factory or any other commercial or
residential place . Therefore , education of such children
are very important for their as well as our country’s future
.

NGOs working on this issue
1) Concerned for Working Children (CWC)
The Concerned for Working Children
is a not-for-profit secular, democratic
development agency based in
Bangalore, India. Active since the late
1970s, it is one of the first
organizations in India to focus on
working children and their needs

2) Child Rights and You (CRY)
It helps to enable people to take
responsibility for the situation of the
deprived Indian child and so motivate
them to seek resolution through
individual and collective action
thereby enabling children to realize
their full potential.
It wants to see every child as a happy,
healthy and creative child.

3) Centre for Rural Education and
Development Action (CREDA)
Centre for Rural Education and Development
Action (CREDA) was set-up in 1982. CREDA’s
objective is working towards the development
and empowerment of socially and
economically backward communities through
community participation, child being in the
centrestage. The NGO's work focuses on child
labour related activities. It has undertaken
projects for the elimination and rehabilitation
of child labour.

• The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation)
Act, 1986: The Act prohibits the employment of
children below the age of 14 years in 16
occupations and 65 processes that are hazardous
to the children's lives and health.
• The Factories Act, 1948: The Act prohibits the
employment of children below the age of 14 years.
• The Mines Act, 1952: The Act prohibits the
employment of children below 18 years of age in a
mine.
• The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act, 2009: Provides for free and
compulsory education to all children aged 6 to 14
years. This legislation also envisages that 25 per
cent of seats in every private school should be
allocated for children from disadvantaged groups.
Schemes
and Policies
of
government
to help
under-
privileged
children

Things Which We Can Do To Help These Poor
Children
•We can help NGOs in creating awareness among children as
well as people making them realize about their rights.
•We can help these un-privileged children by sending them to
schools and making them realize about why should they go to
schools and why they should not do child labour.
• We can even help them by suggesting our government to
launch even more large scale family planning programs so
that the population of poor children becomes less and child
labour also decreases.
•We can also help them by suggesting our government to
make laws to punish people who employ children as workers
even more strictly than the existing laws.

THE EVILS OF CHILD LABOUR
Presentation Submitted By -:
Vineet Aggarwal

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