Child Labor In India: Duties, Reasons, Impact, Conditions And Government Policy

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...to include between 11 and 60 million children in underpaid, exploitive and hazardous conditions. While the majority of child laborers (78.67%) are involved in agricultural labor positions, most human rights organizations focus more so on the urban-based child laborers within the manufacturing sector as those children are more likely to be bonded. Bonded labor refers to the phenomenon of children working in conditions of servitude in order to pay off a debt and there are approximately over one million bonded child laborers in India (Badiwala, 1998).
Mainly because of international pressure, the India government has imposed several child labor acts in which they tend to create the world’s largest child labor elimination program. However, since the Child Labor (Prohibition & Regulation) Act was legislated in 1986, little has been done to improve the child labor situation. In fact, because of the continued poverty rate at over 35% and the need for India to compete on international trade markets, the child labor industry has...

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