Child Labour in India – What & Why by VISHWAJEET KUMAR, Intern at ubAdvocate

VISHWAJEET KUMAR
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Child Labour in India – What & Why ?
"Child labour refers to the employment of children under a legally specified age, preventing them from gaining access to formal education. All around the world, every country is trying to do everything in their power to stop child labour. However, abolishing child labour completely is a goal yet to be achieved.

Every country has proposed rules against child labour, and anyone who is found breaking the law would be subject to imprisonment or some kind of punishment as deemed by the court of law. In India, the Indian Constitution lays out rules against child labour under Article 24, which states, “No child below the age of fourteen shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or employed in any hazardous employment”. There are also other constitutional provisions for child upliftment in the Indian Constitution, which include the Right to Education under Article 21 A (Free and compulsory education for all children from the age of six to fourteen) and Article 39 points out that the State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards “Securing the health and strength of workers, men and women, and the tender age of children are not abused and that citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their age or strength”.

There is also the International Labour Organization that brings together workers, employers and governments of 187 member states in order to set working standards, design and develop policies, and devise programs that promote decent working conditions for both men and women all around the world.

According to the 2020 Global Estimates of Child Labour, 1 in 10 of all children worldwide are engaged in child labour, accounting for around 160 million child workers. Not every work done by a child is considered child labour. A child doing something that, in no way, affects the child’s health and personal development or interferes with the child’s schooling is not child labour. The ILO lists the worst forms of child labour under Article 3 of ILO Convention No. 182 and is working hard to eliminate it without any further delay. According to ILO, the worst forms of child labour include all kinds of slavery (trafficking, debt bondage, serfdom, etc.), procuring children for prostitution or pornography, using children for illegal activities and any work that would harm the health, safety or morals of children."
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