Question

the number of sectors identified to pra
yent child labour in the industrial act of 1948 are ​

Answer 1

Answer:

28 sectors

Explanation:

ndia has a new law against child labour. Or more precisely: the old Child Labour Act of 1986 was recently amended. On July 19, 2016, the Indian Upper House (Rajya Sabha) approved the amendments.

Has the law been improved after so many years of struggle against child labour and with partial success in practice? On some points it is, but Indian child rights activists and many others are very disappointed in the significant loopholes in the law which even might increase child labour – especially of children below 14 years of age.

Basically, the new law prohibits all employment of children under 14 years. The law thus fits (finally) in with the Education Act of 2009, giving the right to free education to all children up to this age and obliging parents to send them to school.

Until recently, children from 14 to 18 years were allowed to do any kind of work. Now for this group of children it is prohibited to work in mines, to work with inflammable substances or explosives and – the much broader category – to do ‘hazardous work’. For the definition of hazardous work the amendment Bill refers to an annex of the Factories Act of 1948 in which 28 sectors are mentioned – such as the production of coal, cement, metal, leather, chemicals, glass and dyes - where adolescents are not allowed to work.