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Why child labour exists, and what the government and the society should do to prevent it.
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India is one of countries in the world where child labour still prevails- that too rampantly.
Article 21A of the Indian constitution ensures the right to free and compulsory education to all children. But then, why should these children work instead of studying? I doubt if the prescribed age bracket can actually aid in the betterment of students.
At 14, a child should ideally be in class 8th - that too, if they haven't failed. Do you think a class 8 education is sufficient to enable these children to lead a comfortable life, today, especially when government schools clearly aren't providing the best education? In fact, to even join a vocational training programme, you boast about the right to education? Therefore, in my opinion, the government should do away with the age bracket in its right to education.
When asked about going to school, an eight year old boy who lives in village, said "I don't go to school." When his mother asked about this, she said, " We don't have enough money to live properly and eat. We live life of nomads. Then, how can we think about their education?" Their condition is really pathetic and the boy plans to engage in labour work to support the family, a few years down the line.
In contrast, the child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation ) Amendment Act, 2016, seems to be progressive. However, an article in The Hindu says that even the new act suffers from many problems. For one, it has drastically reduce the number of hazardous occupation from 83 to just mining, explosive, and occupations mentioned in the Factory Act. Furthermore even the ones listed as hazardous can be removed, according to section 4 of the act - not by legislature but by government authorities at their own discretion.
The National Food Security Act, 2013, makes provision for providing free mid day meal in primary and upper primary government school. As such, it is one of the largest programmes of its kind reaching out to 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools.
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‘Child Labor’ is work performed by a child that is likely to interfere with his or her right to education, or to be harmful to their health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development. All work done by children under the age of 15 and dangerous work done by children under the age of 18 is illegal. Child labor is prohibited under international treaties and agreements.
Few acts preventing child labor
Factories Act, 1948
The Act prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 years in any factory. The law also placed rules on who, when and how long can pre-adults aged 15–18 years be employed in any factory.
Mines Act, 1952
The Act prohibits the employment of children below 18 years of age in a mine.
Child and Adolescent Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
A "Child" is defined as any person below the age of 14 and the CLPR Act prohibits employment of a Child in any employment including as a domestic help (except helping own family in non-hazardous occupations). It is a cognizable criminal offence to employ a Child for any work. Children between age of 14 and 18 are defined as "Adolescent" and the law allows Adolescent to be employed except in the listed hazardous occupation and processes which include mining, inflammable substance and explosives related work and any other hazardous process as per the Factories Act, 1948.[31]
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) of Children Act, 2015
This law made it a crime, punishable with a prison term, for anyone to keep a child in bondage for the purpose of employment.
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
The law mandates free and compulsory education to all children aged 6 to 14 years. This legislation also mandated that 25 per cent of seats in every private school must be allocated for children from economically disadvantaged groups
These rules and acts are given by the government of India to protect child labor.