child labour

Child labour in India Government said that instances of child labour detected during 2014 to 2018 have reduced successively. “Child” as defined by the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 is a person who has not completed the age of 14 years. International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines the term ‘Child labour’as, “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. According to 2011 Census, there were more than 10.2 million children in the age group of 5 to 14-5 as Child labourwhich includes 6 million boys and 4.5 million girls. The factors that contribute to child labour includes the poverty and illiteracy, the family’s social and economic circumstances, lack of access to basic and meaningful quality education and skills training. There are five states which are the India’s biggest child labour employers- Uttar Pradesh, Bihar Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. As per 2011 Census, 1 in 11 children are working in India (5-18 years) 80% of the child labour in India is concentrated in rural areas  ILO 2016 data indicates that there are 152 million working children in the world between 5-17 years, of which 23.8 million children are in India. So 16% of working children are in India. #ChildLabour