Prevention of the child labour

There some prevention are as follows which is against the child labour

• There are many social issues of child labour which we have to eliminate from the different countries. Now, it should stop, and we have to follow up the necessary restrictions and rules on the regards of child labour.
• Each and every child should have the priority of the live with all facilities in the independent country. It will be very helpful for the children. If we help to the children and stand against the child labour then, so many children can join the proper schooling. They will get the regular education as well as the sports activity.
• If we will very restrict for solve the problem of child labour, then we would be able to force them better.
• Every country should have this restriction against the child labour. Children will get so much priority when all will stand for help to them.
• There should be awareness among the people to terminate the child labour from India because it can incur in our nearby future. Children are our future of developing country. India mostly depends upon the children of his present age.
• Every family should earn a decent living and good saving for the future of his children, and then children could get a decent life and education. It will be very helpful for their children and then people will not any need to send to his children on the work.
• Every family shall understand his kids for reducing the burden of the families, There are so many reasons in a family for child labour, results in the lesser child, education expenses, etc. they shall help to the reduce this all problems, then no one child will go for child labour.
• Each industrial company and his organizations should increase the employment opportunities for the adult workers; then child labour will replace from this all employees.

Consequences of Child Labour

Child labour inflicts damage to a child’s physical and mental health. A child labourer has no basic rights to education, development, and freedom. Children employed as labourers work in unsafe environments where there is a constant danger of fatal accidents. They are forced to lead a life of poverty, illiteracy, and deprivation. They are required to perform gruelling and physically demanding tasks and in return receive only meagre wages. Poor working conditions cause severe health problems to such children. A child labourer not just suffers physical and mental torture but also becomes mentally and emotionally mature too fast which is never a good sign.

Consequences of Child Labour:

1. It is important for human beings to enjoy every stage of their development. A child should play with friends and make memories for a lifetime. Child labour, therefore, leads to loss of quality childhood as children will be deprived of the opportunity to enjoy the amazing experiences that come with being young. A child forced to work will miss many of the good things associated with childhood.'

2. Child labour can also lead to health complications due to undernourishment and poor working conditions. It is highly unlikely that people who employ children also have the moral capacity to ensure that they have good working conditions. Working in places such as mines and badly conditioned factories may result in lifetime health issues for children employed to work in these places.

3. It is not a pleasant experience to be kept working as a child while your age-mates are out playing and going to school. Children also lack the ability to shield themselves from most of the challenges that occur in the workplace. Issues such as bullying, sexual exploitation, and unfavorable working hours may result in mental trauma in these children. Child labour may also result in the lack of emotional growth and thus insensitivity.

4. Children that are employed do not have the time to go to school. They spend a lot of time in their workstations as the days and years go by. The lack of education and illiteracy makes them individuals with limited opportunities as far as employment is concerned. Education also prepares a person for several challenges in the society and without it, one may turn out to lack the basic skills required to overcome many of life’s problems. An illiterate person, on the other hand, considers force to be the only answer to nearly all of the challenges experienced.

Who is Responsible for Child Labour ?

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In India, more than 5 million children are engaged in labour work that is completely not acceptable in order to make our country healthy, wealthy and socially developed. Survey says that, poverty and shortage of good primary schools are the main cause for child labour. Except that, mental state of parents also affects this crime. Until a parent is not aware of harmful impacts of this crime “child labour” on their children, it is almost impossible to end this crime. Extreme poor and rural areas are the sources of this evil “Child Labour” or “Child Slavery”. This trend has developed in rural areas to send their kids for work instead of sending them to school to get education.

There are so many places in India where this crime still exists like households, real estates, hotel and restaurants, manufacturing plants, handicraft industry, entertainment industry, coal & mines, etc. Some of them are too hazardous and dangerous for young ones which can physically and mentally damage them like exploitative occupation of coal mines and industries of matchbox and fireworks, but still children are working there in excess number.

Children are getting affected physically, mentally, socially, and morally due to this unacceptable crime “Child Labour”. It has targeted many countries in the form of undeveloped economic structure which has resulted in poverty, illiteracy, high population, corruption, unemployment, criminal activities, etc.

What's going on?

With all laws, India's stance on child labour seems pretty firm. The reality, though, isn't quite as simple. While the nation has child labour laws, they're hard to enforce, particularly in the rural areas of India where child labour is most prevalent and where many villages are barely connected to state infrastructure. Officially, each state of India (India has 29 states) is responsible for enforcing child labour within its own borders but many face issues of funding and administration.

On top of this, India's judicial system is dramatically overwhelmed and severely backlogged and child labour violations can easily slip through the cracks. Even when cases are prosecuted correctly, in some places the penalties for those using child labour is as little as a $160 fine and 3 months in jail, which isn't enough to serve as a practical deterrent.

So, what's going on? Why don't the people of India just stop using child labour? As much as the international community dislikes the practice, we can't ignore that it's a firmly-established tradition in many places. Traditions are hard enough to change as it is but this is especially true when families have few economic opportunities. For many families in India, giving up child labour means giving up an entire income, which could plunge them into absolute poverty. For some employers, particularly in less-developed areas, using child labour is the only way to create local products cheap enough to be competitive with international mass-produced goods. So, it's a tricky subject.

Live in poverty

Work and begging are different categories of children’s activities that give them an identity through their communication with costumers and other working children. As the author Antonella Invernizzi puts it, child work has three functions:

• The function of support: The child brings home some money with which s/he supports the family income or with which the family can finance her/his education.
• The function of socialisation: The child learns new abilities and learns to appreciate the value of work. Furthermore s/he learns to appreciate the solidarity within the family.
• The function of continuation: With the learned abilities the child is able to support the family with her/his earnings and can be autonomous if the parents die. 

However, due to cultural and economic factors, these goals remain difficult to meet. For instance, the act does nothing to protect children who perform domestic or unreported labor, which is very common in India. In almost all Indian industries girls are unrecognized laborers because they are seen as helpers and not workers. Therefore, girls are therefore not protected by the law. Children are often exploited and deprived of their rights in India, and until further measures are taken, many Indian children will continue to live in poverty.

Poor children in India

Poor children in India begin working at a very young and tender age. Many children have to work to help their families and some families expect their children to continue the family business at a young age.

India has always stood for constitutional, statutory and developmental measures that are required to eliminate child labour in India. Indian Constitution consciously incorporated relevant provisions in the Constitution to secure compulsory universal elementary education as well as labor protection for children. Though most children begin working at a young age due to economic reasons, doing so allows them to break from some social constraints.

India’s policy on child labour has evolved over the years against this backdrop. The present regime of laws relating to Child Labor in India have a pragmatic foundation and are consistent with the International Labour Conference resolution of 1979.

The policy of the government is to ban employment of children below the age of fourteen years in factories, mines and hazardous employment and to regulate the working conditions of children in other employment. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 seeks to achieve this basic objective.

Childhood is a wonderful time

Childhood is a wonderful time indeed. To play, learn, absorb and develop one’s mind, body and soul. Spending time doing all of the above, some of us wish we never grew up, and some of us just refused to.

 

There are some things have been able to bring people from all over the world together. Soccer. Saving the whales. Then, of course, there's child labor (the use of kids in business). Ensuring the basic rights of children to a healthy and educational childhood is something that many people can agree is a solid goal.

Unfortunately, the realities are not so simple, particularly in places that have only relatively recently started developing industrial economies. An example of this is India. Child labor has been a longstanding practice in India, especially in rural areas where all members of a family traditionally worked from a young age. Recently, the nation has tried to change this with new policies against child labor. Many of these have been successful, with the overall percentage of working children declining. However, with India's rapid population growth, the actual number of child workers is actually growing, including possibly millions of children. That's a lot. Turns out, not everyone quite feels the same about this issue just yet.

NGO’s role in Eliminating Child Labor

The problem of child labor in India is so huge that it demands support and contribution from every part of society to completely eradicate this problem. In recent times, government has taken some concrete steps for improving the situations of child laborers. Providing free education, encouraging parents to send their kids to schools with awareness campaigns and allocation of funds towards child health and development etc are some of the steps taken by the state. 

Among the UN organizations, UNICEF has remained instrumental in initiating several steps against child labor. UNICEF has been well supported by civil society organizations and NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations). Several renowned and committed NGOs are working to improve the situation in this field. These NGOs, both local and international, focus on different problems concerning child labor. Let’s have a look at some of the top NGOs dealing with menace of child labor.

We cannot undermine the huge role played by NGOs in handling child labor issues. Specific NGOs focus on certain areas of improvement. For instance, if Action Aid India concentrates on child education and on street and working children then CRY targets underprivileged children who don’t have basic resources to sustain themselves. NGOs are carrying child development activities all over India. Some children educational NGOs engage themselves in offering free education to poor kids. They teach children living in slums.

Who is Responsible?

India is the 2^nd largest populated country in the world and also ranks on 2^nd number where child labour happens. The main question comes into our mind after hearing about the child labour is that “Who is Responsible”? After deep research, we find that main cause for existences of this major crime is extreme poverty, shortage of good primary education centres, increased population, growth of informal economy, ignorance of rules and laws that has been made to prevent “child labour” and increasing demand of labour at low payment. Generally, this crime is done by those greedy industrialists who want their work to be done with less or without cost. Some of poor parents don’t understand how much their children are affected by this crime regarding their physical, moral and mental development. A child is the future citizen of the country and getting education, playing, enjoying childhood is the birth right of his/her. If a child has secure, healthy and educated future then automatically it will improve our nation’s informal economy.

Census 2011 says that even after declining the rate of child labour by 65%, it is found that around 5 million children (with age 5 to 14) are trapped in this non acceptable crime, in which girls are two times more than boys who are working in domestic services. 

According to the National Survey Sample Organization, ratio of child labour in Muslim category is 40% higher than Hindus and category of Dalit has child labour rate about 2.8% and Trible category with higher percentage rate with 3.8%. In conclusion, one in every eleven child in India is engaged in child labour.

Frequently utilization of child labour

“Child labour and poverty are inevitably bound together, and if you continue to use the labour of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”

In our country, there is the very significant social issue on the children. Child labour is the international concern because of its damages, spoils and destroys and exploiting the future of the children. Child labour problem is not only suffering in the India, but also in the other developing countries. It is a huge problem in India. The children are our hope and future of our nation, but, there are millions of children are deprived in our country. Child labour has never known an ordinary and carefree.

The law of our India says that for the child, that below an age of 14 cannot employ in any factory and offices or restaurant. These rules come into the human rights for the children. In fact, In India’s international business has been severely affected in many cases because child labour, violating human rights have used in some stage or the other in manufacturing and packaging those items. And, in a significant number of cases of export of ready-made garments, prawn, and several other items from India has been rejected on the grounds of child labor used.

In India, there is frequently utilization of child labour at various places of production and service such as Restaurant service, small-scale industry, domestic aid, shopkeeper’s assistant, stone breaking, bookbinding, not only in that but also in the small household industry.