Q.1 Unseen passage:-
Read the following passage carefully.
(8 marks)
1. Children are the future of any nation. They should be given proper education and food so that they would
become an asset to their country. But it is unfortunate that children are being used as child laboures. If
the government had really wanted, child labour in hazardous industries could have been eliminated a long
time ago, and every Indian child would have been in school by 2003. The government has not only failed to
eliminate child labour completely but also failed to provide compulsory primary education for all, despite
the rhetoric Between 60 and 100 million children are still at work instead of going to school and around
10 million are working in hazardous industries.
2. We have many laws that ban the child labour in hazardous industries. According to the Child Labour
Prohibition and Regulation Act, 1986, the employment of children (below the age of 14) in hazardous
occupations has been banned strictly. But each state has different rules regarding the minimum age of
employment; this makes implementation of these laws difficult.
3. Also, there is no ban on child labour in non-hazardous occupations. The act applies to the organised or
factory sector and not to the unorganised or informal sector where most children find employment as
cleaners, servants, porters, waiters, among other forms of unskilled work. Thus, child labour still persists
because of the laxity in the implementation of the existing laws.
4. There are industries which have a 'special' demand for child labour because of their nimble fingers, high
level of concentration and capacity to work hard at abysmally low wages. The carpet industry in Kashmir
employs children to make hand-knotted carpets, there are 80,000 child workers alone in Jammu and
Kashmir. Because of the political unrest, the schools have been shut down and the Kashmiri children are
forced to work for the carpet manufacturers to support their families.
Answer the following questions briefly based on your reading of the passage. . (1 x 8 = 8 marks)
1a. What were the two things that the government of India failed to achieve regarding child labour in India?
2b. What does Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act, 1986 state?
30. Why do companies employ children in carpet making in Kashmir?
yd. Why the ban fails to apply in the unorganised sector or informal sector?
se. What is a curse in Indian society?
bf. What should be compulsory?
79. Which industry has a special demand for child labour?
gh. Find the word in paragraph 4 of the passage which means 'quick in action'.
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Answers
Answer:
answer 1. The government if India faliled to eliminate child labour completely and to provide compulsory primary education for all
2. According to chlid labour prohibition and regulation act 1986 . no one can labour a children under 14 year of age for work .
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Answer:
1a. The government failed in eliminating child labour completely and failed in providing compulsory primaryeducation to all.
2b. According to the child labour prohibition and regulation act, 1986 the employment of children below 14 years in hazardous occupation has been banned strictly.
30. Because of the political unrest the schools have been shut down and the kashmiri childrenare forced to work for the carpet manufacturers to support their families.
yd. The act does not applies in the unorganized or informal sector because most children find employment as cleaners servants porters waiters among other forms of unskilled work.