Children in India with the bias

1. CHILD LABOUR

2. Child labour is the practicing of having
children engage in economic activity, on part
or full-time basis. The practice deprives
children of their childhood, and is harmful to
their physical and mental development.
Poverty, lack of good schools and growth of
informal economy are considered as the
important causes of child labour in India

3. The 2001 national census of India
estimated the total number of child
labour, aged 5–14, to be at 12.6 million,
out of a total child population of 253
million in 5-14 age group. The child
labour problem is not unique to India;
worldwide, about 217 million children
work, many full-time.
In 2001, out of a 12.6 million child
workers, about 120,000 children in India
were in a hazardous job.

5.  Section 12 of India's Child Labour (Prohibition
and Regulation) Act of 1986 requires
prominent display of 'child labour is
prohibited' signs in many industries and
construction sites in local language and
English.
 The Factories Act of 1948: The Act prohibits the
employment of children below the age of 14
years in any factory

6. Widespread positive awareness to go to school not
to work.
Awareness through print and electronic media.
Campaigns on CHILD RIGHTS.
Observation of specific day ANTI CHILD
LABOUR DAY in june 12th by ILO.

7. The international Labour Organization has been
fighting child labour for many decades.
The United Nations declared the children must be
protected from dangerous work.
Over the past many years many agreements,
which protect the rights of children, have been
signed.