Child Labour is constantly growing in India and we need to give a serious thought about such statistics. Explore the presentation to help you get a grip on the reality of Child Labour in India

1. 01
Child Labour
A Pandemic Evil

2. Content
✤ Child Labour, An Overview!
✤ India & Child Labour!
✤ Bonded Child Labour!
✤ Consequences !
✤ Government Initiatives & Non Government Organisations!
✤ Suggestions and Recommendations

3. Meet my friend, Nattu !
“Exemplary strength and unmatched innocence”

4. Child Labour
✤ “Work that deprives a child of their childhood, their potential
and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical & mental
development.”

5. “The salvation of all people awaits in thy hands, Dispenser of
India’s destiny, Victory, Victory, Victory to thee”
–Rabindranath Tagore

6. 01
India,
Developing?
✤ Below poverty line 25 %Cr!
✤ Around 50,000!
✤ Or-Pro-Dom!
✤ 15 Hrs, 20 Cents!
✤ Two Third & One Third!
✤ 28 Million (Approx.) (Unicef, 2011)

7. Why is it our concern!?
‘Without help there will be no hope for them’

8. 01
Bonded Child
Labour
✤ Master’s Property!
✤ Colonial Times!
✤ 1976, Abolition of Bonded
Labour!
✤ 10,50,00 (Source: ILO)

9. 01
“Every 8 minutes a child goes missing .”
–International Labour Organisation

10. Poverty = Child Labour

11. 01
Consequences
!
✤ Physical Abuse!
✤ Sexual Abuse!
✤ Physical & Emotional Neglect!
✤ Perpetuates Poverty!
✤ Curtailed development

12. Government Initiatives
✤ Laws Enforced:
The Child Labour Act, 1986.
The Factories Act, 1948
The Mines Act, 1952
Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection) Of Children Act, 2000
Right Of Children To Free & Compulsory Education Act, 2009
NCLP (602 Cr)!
✤ Constitutional Provisions:
Article 24
Article 21, 45
Article 39

13. Non Government Organisations
“1098”

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Non Government
Organisations
✤ Child line, 1098!
✤ CARE India!
✤ Bachpan Bachao Andolan!
✤ RIDE India

16. “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the
way in which it treats its children”
–Nelson Mandela

17. Recommendations & Suggestions
✤ Be Responsible!
✤ Act!
✤ Educate!
✤ Report!
✤ ‘Sambhav’ (Take a small step today)

18. Child Labour
‘One missing child is one too many’ -Mohnish Bahal, Amity!
@mohnish_bahal, mohnishbahal@ymail.com