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.