Presented by:-

• Garima -4566
• Ruhi -4562
• Ankupriya -4564
• Chandan -4598
• Avish -4597
ABOUT CHILD LABOR
• The term Child Labor is used for
employment of children below a certain
age, which is considered illegal by law
and custom.

• Today Child labor is considered as human

rights issue, and has become an issue of
public dispute.

• Stats from ILO (International Labor

Organization) states that about 218
million children between the age of 5 and
17 are working all over the world.
• Child labor includes work which are
tedious and repetitive like weaving
carpets, assembling boxes, polishing
shoes, cleaning and arranging a shops
goods.
What is Child Labor ?
• Child labor is done by any
working child who is under the
age specified by law.
• Children’s work full time
commercial work to sustain self
or add to the family income.
• Child labor is a hazard to child’s
mental, physical, social,
educational, emotional, and
spiritual development.
• According to the rules of ILO it is important
for all the countries to set a minimum age for
employment.
• The rules of ILO written in convention C-138
has made provisions for the countries to set
the minimum age of employment that is till the
age of 15.
Child Labor Today.
• According to ILO and other agencies 73
million children between 10 to 14 years of
age are employed in economic activities all
over the world.
• In Africa 23.6%(23.6 million) of its
children’s are working which is the
highest rate.
• In Asia 44.6 million or 13% of its children
are working as labors.
• And in Central America it is 9.8%, that is
about 5.1 million children.
 Child Labor in Some
Countries
• KENYA 41.3% • NIGERIA 25.8%
• INDIA 14.4% • SENEGAL 31.4%
• BANGLADESH 30.1% • ARGENTINA 4.5%
• CHINA 11.6% • BRAZIL 16.1%
• PAKISTAN 17.7% • MEXICO 6.7%
• TURKEY 24% • ITALY 0.4%
• EGYPT 11.2% • PORTUGAL 1.8%
Child Labor in INDIA
• In India there are 20 million child laborers
working in carpet making, glass blowing,
fireworks, and construction sites.
• In Northern India children's work in
carpet weaving industries under very
unhygienic conditions.
• Children in rural families who are ailing
with poverty perceive their children as an
income generating resource to supplement
the family income.
• Bonded labor traps the growing child in a hostage
like condition for years.

• There is no access to proper education in the

remote areas of rural India for most people,
which leaves the children with no choice.
Causes of Child Labor.
• The most common causes
of child labor are poverty,
parental illiteracy, social
apathy, ignorance, lack of
education and exposure.
• Absence of compulsory
education at primary
levels, parental ignorance
regarding the bad effects
of child labor.
• Poverty and overpopulation
are the most highlighted
causes.
• Industrial revolution has also had a negative
effect by giving rise to circumstances which
encourages child labor.

• Children’s who are orphaned or are abandoned are

more prone to these exploitations.
Child Labour Policies in
India
There are specific clauses in the draft of Indian
constitution dated 26th Jan 1950, abut the child
labor policy in India.
 (Article 14) “No child below the age of 14 years
shall be employed to work in any factory, mine or
hazardous employment”.
 (Article 39-E) “The state shall direct it’s policy
towards securing the health and strength of
workers, men, women and the tender age of
children are not abused and they are not forced
by economic necessity to enter vocations
unsuited to there health and strength”.
 (Article 39-f) “Children shall be given
opportunities ad facilities to develop in a
healthy manner and in conditions of freedom
and dignity and that childhood and youth shall
be protected against moral and material
abandonment”.
 (Article 45) “The state shall endeavor to
provide within a period of ten years from the
commencement of the constitution for free
and compulsory education for all children until
they complete the age of 14 years”.
Bonded Child Labor in
India
• It is one of the age old
practice in India.
• In this the child is sold to the
loaner like a commodity for a
certain period of time.
• It is prevailing in many parts
of rural India.
• The parents of the bonded
child is usually poor,
uneducated, who have to
compromise on their children’s.
Indian Silk Industry and
Child Labor.
• T.N, U.P, Karnataka, are the
states where the children’s
work as bonded labors in silk
industries.

• Children’s work for 12 hours

a day, and seven days a week.
• These children while working in silk factories
breathe smoky fumes which causes severe lung
problems in them.
• They have to dip their hands in boiling water
which causes blisters, they handle dead worms
which causes infection, twisting thread injures
their fingers.
Child Labor in Indian
Sweet Shops.
• These shops function quietly
and illegally as household
industries making little children
toil for long hours on low wages.
• Children’s working in these
shops work for long hours and
suffer from exertion and
fatigue.
• Children’s working in these
shops mainly hail from U.P,
Bihar, and Nepal.
• Most of the children working in these
sector are not paid more than 300 to
800 monthly.
• The shop owners bully and torture
the children working in their shop to
make them work for long hours.
Stop Child Labor.
Certain steps are need to be taken to stop child labor.
• Projects related with human resource
development, dedicated to the child welfare issues
must be given top priority by the central and state
governments to stop the menace of child labor.
• Child labor laws need to be strictly implemented at
the central and state levels.
• Corruption and negligence in child labor offices and
employee circles should be dealt with very strictly
by the judiciary and the police force.
• To counter the real situation called child labor
and save little humans from abuse at a tender
age, the government should be compelled to
provide compulsory and free education to all
children up to the age of fourteen years.
 CONCLUSION
• The future of a community is in the well being of its
children. The above fact is beautifully expressed by
Wordsworth in his famous lines “child is father of the
man”.
• Concerned about the future of its children India has
implemented a country- wide ban recently, on children below
fourteen working in the hospitality sector and as domestics.
• In the end ,if we want to save our world’s future we need to
make our children’s future secure. The venerable Indian
poet Rabindranth Tagore has said time and again, that every
country is absolutely bound by its duty to provide free
primary education to its children. It is important to
remember that industrialization can afford to wait but
youth cannot be captured for long.
A PRESENTATION BY:-
GARIMA
RUHI
ANKUPRIYA
CHANDAN
AVISH