Child Labour in India
Radhika Kapur
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Abstract
Children are the greatest gift to humanity and childhood is a very crucial stage of human
life where all the development takes place. When children are brought up in an environment
which is favorable to their physical, intellectual, social and emotional growth and development,
they become responsible and productive members of the society. In India, it is strongly believed
that children are the future citizens of the country and their status, capabilities and wisdom will
create the countrys future. When they are engaged in labor activities at a young age, their
present welfare and the future income generating capabilities get reduced. Normally, when there
is extreme economic distress, then the children relinquish their educational opportunities and get
employed in exploitative and hazardous jobs. Poor parents do send their children to work
because of their poor economic conditions and this is done at the expense of education. Due to
child labor the attendance of the children within the schools is low, childrens safety and health
gets affected by child labor and on the whole working in early years may give them some
financial assistance but the intellectual, emotional and social development of the child gets
adversely affected (CL, 2013).
Keywords: Child Labour; children; economic distress
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