Child Labour in India: Law, Policy and Program

Sunil Kumar Jangir

Abstract: The spreading of child labour is one of the crucial problems confronting the world at great, in particular developing countries such as India. In many cases, child exertion is mainly necessitated by monetary compulsions of the parents. The major factor which gives increase to child labour is widespread unemployment and under employment between the mature poor strata of the population, inters alia, due to sharp rise of population. Large families with low incoming and often reduction of instructional facilities, illiteratness and persistence of parents about the weightage of learning as well as about the influence of labour on the health of their children are some of the cause which species child labour

Keywords: labour, Right of Children, Youth Affairs Department, Women and Child Development, population