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ENGLISH ART PROJECT Child Labour
ENGLISH ART PROJECT Child Labour
ENGLISH ART PROJECT Child Labour
Session: 2021-22
"There are more than 100 children working as labourers in the district who couldn't
be established as child labourers," according to a report prepared by the district
administration after an inspection under the Child Labour (Prohibition)
According to the survey conducted under CL(P&R) Act 1986, six were identified as
child labourers while 45 others were suspected to be child labourers in 21
establishments during the inspection.
Show cause notices were issued to six employers, who were directed to send the
identified child labourers to government schools.
But the inspection programme has been halted after it was revealed that
temporary children's shelters, rehabilitation centres and special schools for
identified children did not exist in the district.
Picture of
Childrens
• According to the survey conducted under
MW Act, 1948 and PW Act, 1936, out of
21 establishments inspected, 14 were
making payments below that prescribed by
the state government and did not maintain
records or registers of payments. Show
cause notices were issued to them as well.
• The report said that as per the CL (P&R)
Act 1986, no child below 14 years of age
shall be employed or permitted to work in
any factory or mine or engaged in other
hazardous work.
• It has also to be seen that all children were
given education till the age of 14 years and
that they did not enter avocations unsuited
to their age because of economic necessity,
it added.
My
Opinion
• Child labour and exploitation are the result of
many factors, including poverty, social norms
condoning them, lack of decent work
opportunities for adults and adolescents,
migration and emergencies. These factors are
not only the cause but also a consequence of
social inequities reinforced by discrimination.
• Children belong in schools not workplaces.
Child labour deprives children of their right to
go to school and reinforces intergenerational
cycles of poverty. Child labour acts as a major
barrier to education, affecting both
attendance and performance in school.
Conclusion