CHILD LABOUR
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Child Labour refers to a crime where children are forced to work from a very early age. It is like expecting kids to perform responsibilities like working and fending for themselves. The average age for a child to be appropriate to work is considered fifteen years and more. Children falling below this age limit won't be allowed to indulge in any type of work forcefully. Because child labour takes away the kid's opportunity of having a normal childhood, proper education and physical and mental wellbeing. In many countries, it is illegal but still, it's far away from being completely eradicated.
CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF CHILD LABOUR
Child Labour happens due to several reasons. Firstly, it happens in countries that have a lot of poverty and unemployment. When the families are incapable of earning, they force the children to work so they can have enough money to survive. Similarly, if the adults of the family are unemployed, the younger ones have to work in their place.
Moreover, when people do not have access to the education they will ultimately put their children to work. The uneducated only care about a short term result that is why they put children to work so they can survive their present. Furthermore, the profit minded attitude of various industries is also a major cause of child labour. They hire children because they can pay them less for the same work as an adult. As children work more than adults and also at fewer wages, they prefer children. They can easily influence and manipulate them. They only see their profit and this is why they engage children in factories.
The continuing persistence of child labour and exploitation possess a threat to national economies and has severe negative short and long term consequences for children such as denial of education and undermining physical and mental health.
CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA
Child labour deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically socially or morally dangerous and harmful. The Census of India 2011 reports 10.1 million working children in the age group of 5-14 years, out of whom 8.1 million are in rural areas mainly engaged as cultivators (26%) and agricultural laborer's (32.9%).
Risk of contracting occupational diseases like skin diseases, diseases of the lungs, weak eyesight, TB etc., vulnerability to sexual exploitation at the workplace. deprivation of education.
CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL PROVISIONS
According to Article 24 of the Indian Constitution any type of forced labour is prohibited. Article 24 states that a child under 14 years cannot be employed to perform any hazardous work Article 39 states that the health and strength of workers, men and women and the tender age of children are not abused. In the same manner, Child Labour Act (Prohibition and Regulation) 1986 prohibits children under the age of 14 years to be working in hazardous industries and processes. Policy interventions such as MGNREGA 2005, the Right to Education Act 2009 and the Mid Day Meal Scheme have paved the way for children to be in schools along with guaranteed wage employment for rural families.
Further, with the ratification International Labour Organization conventions Nos. 138 and 182 in 2017, the Indian government have demonstrated its commitment to the elimination of child labour including those engaged in hazardous occupations.
MAJOR CHILD PROTECTION LAWS IN INDIA
- Children Pledging of Labour Act, 1933
- Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation Act, 1986)
- Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
- Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
- Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
ERADICATION OF CHILD LABOUR
To eradicate child labour, we need to formulate some very effective solutions which will save our children. To begin with, one can create several unions that solely work to prevent child labour. We need to keep the parents in the loop to teach them the importance of education. If we make education free and the people aware, we will be able to educate more and more children who won't have to do child labour. Moreover, making people aware of the harmful consequences of child labour is a must. Every family must earn their . minimum income to survive and prevent child labour. It will decrease the level of poverty and thus minor labour.
Child trafficking should be eliminated by the governments of all countries. Child workers should be substituted by adult workers as about 800 million grown-ups are jobless in this world. In this way, an adult will get work and children will be free from labour. Work opportunities should be improved for adults to overcome the problem of poverty and child labour. Company owners of factories, industries, mines, etc. should take the oath of not including children in any type of work or job.
LET'S STOP IT...…..
Child labour is a huge social obstacle that requires to be resolved on an instant basis with the help of both, people (particularly parents and teachers) and the government. Children lead a flourishing future of any developing country, so it is the responsibility of all the adult citizens to ensure that they are not exploited. They should get a proper chance to evolve and grow within the happy atmosphere of family and school. They should not be restricted by the parents only to secure the economical scale of the family and by the companies to get labour at a low cost.
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