CHILD LABOUR IN ARUNACHAL

PRADESH AND MEGHALAYA

Presentation By:- Aditi Chaudhary
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my teacher as well as

our principal who gave me the golden oppor tunity to do this wonderful project
on the topic child labour in Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya , which also
helped me in doing a lot of Research and i came to know about so many new
things I am really thankful to them.
Secondly i would also like to thank my parents and friends who helped me a
lot in fi nalizing this project within the limited time frame.
 CERTIFICATE

This is to cer tify that Aditi Chaudhary of class XII Commerce of Sachdeva
Millennium School has completed her English project under our supervision and
has taken proper care and displayed utmost sincerity incompletion of this project.

His/Her project embodies up to the standards both in respect of its content and
form as per CBSE norms and his/her original views.

XII COMMERCE
CONTENT
• What is child Labour?

• Child Labour in Meghalaya

• Child Labour in Arunachal Pradesh

• Work done by children in Arunachal

Pradesh and Meghalaya

• Causes and solutions of Child

Labour

• Conclusion
What is child labour?

Child labour refers to the exploitation of

children through any form of work that
deprives children of their childhood,
interferes with their ability to attend regular
school, and is mentally, physically, socially
and morally harmful.

Economically children are involved in any

kind of work legal or illegal, paid or unpaid.
CHILD LABOUR IN
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
Over 100 child labourers were found working in
various establishments in lower Dibang Valley district
of Arunachal Pradesh, but parents and employers foil
efforts to identify them.
A report by the district administration after an
inspection under the Child Labour (Prohibition &
Regulation) Act found that more than 100 children
were working as labourers.
The report said they could not be identified as child
labourers because of the reluctance on the part of the
children and their parents and also by employers to
provide correct information to the survey team.
Most of the children surveyed worked as labourers
and were deprived of the right to education and paid
very low wages, the report said.
 CHILD LABOUR IN
MEGHALAYA
According to the Census of India 2010, the number of workers
age d betwe e n 5-14 years in Me ghalaya increase d dramatically
in the decade 2000-2010, from 34,633 to 53,940. During that
period the number of workers who had worked for more than 6
months over the past year fell from 30,730 in 1991 to 25,483
in 2010, whilst the number of children who had worked for
less than six m onths in the past ye ar incre as ed cons iderably,
from 3,903 in 2000 to 28,457 in 2010. The number of children
aged between 5-14 years in Meghalaya is 656,000, which
makes up approximately 28.3% of the total state population.
Of those 5-14 olds, 8.22% were engaged in work in the 2010
census, which made up 5.56% of the total number of workers
in Meghalaya. Amongst those 5-14 olds engaged in work,
47.24% had worked for more than six months in the past year ,
and the rest had worked for less than six months in the past
y e a r. T h e p r o p o r t i o n o f w o r k e r s i n M e g h a l a y a a g e d 5 1 7 y e a r s
in the state was 10.95%, which suggests that there are many
labourers aged between 14 and 17.
 WORK DONE BY CHILDREN IN MEGHALAYA AND ARUNACHAL
PRADESH
1 Structure of the coal mines: The coal mines in Jaintia Hills are constructed by digging an
approximately 10 m2 ver tical hole down to the coal seam (to a depth of 70-80 m) and then
digging narrow tunnels, known as „rat holes‟, horizontally along the seam. According to
t h e I m p u l s e N G O N e t w o r k , a p p r o x i m a t e l y 5 , 0 0 0 s u c h c o a l m i n e s e x i s t i n t h e a r e a . H o w e v e r,
a manager of a mine in the Hills estimated that there are approximately 100,000 mines in
the entire region of the Hills. The mines are neither constructed nor maintained in
accordance with any safety regulations, and no safety training or equipment is provided for
workers. Each mine has wooden steps running down the wall from the entrance of the mine
to the bottom of the shaft. As the Meghalaya region has high level of rainfall, the wooden
steps are often slippery and prone to rotting. Slips, falls, injuries, and even deaths result,
and structural collapse is not uncommon.

2 Rat holes and work deep inside: The horizontal rat holes are approximately a kilometer
long and only tall enough for children to crouch in whilst working. The holes wind around
like a network of mole burrows, and at various points they connect with other rat holes
issuing from other vertical access shafts. There are no measures in place to protect
against cave-ins, and no lighting is provided.
EFFECT OF CHILD LABOUR
• C h i l d l a b o u r d e p r i v e s a c h i l d o f a p ro p e r c h i l d ho o d

• S u f f e r p h y s i c a l a n d m e n t a l t o u t ur e

• Child labour creates and perpetuates poverty

• Child labour deprives them for future

• C h i l d l a b o u r e f f e c t s o n t h e c h i l d ’s h e a l t h

• T h e y c o ul d n e a b us e d b y m a n a g e r s o r o w n e r s

• Child labour effect on education

• C h i l d l a b o u r d i r e c t l y a f f e c t t h e f u t u r e o f t he c o u n t r y
CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS OF CHILD LABOUR

PROBLEM SOLUTION
• Poverty • Spread awareness

• Lack of access to quality education • More stringent laws and effective

implementation
• Poor access to decent work

• Sending more children to school

• Limited understanding of child labour

•   S u p p o r t i n g N G O s l i k e S av e t h e C h i l d r e n
• Natural disasters & climate change

• D i s c o u ra g i n g p e o p l e t o e m p l o y c h i l d r e n
• C o n fl i c t s & m a s s m i g r a t i o n
in homes, shops, factories, etc
• Lack of educational resources
 CONCLUSION
Despite the severe limitations of the surviving evidence
o f c h i l d l a b o u r, s o m e g e n e ra l c o n c l u s i o n s m a y b e d ra w n .
First, the employment of very young children was never
widespread in British society. Child labour below the age
o f 1 0 i n va r i a b l y f o r m e d p a r t o f t h e s u r v i va l s t ra t e g i e s o f
t h e p o o r. T h e d e m o g ra p h i c s t r u c t u r e o f e i g h t e e n t h - a n d
nineteenth-century Britain led to an increased burden of
dependency among poor families and early employment
m i g h t b e e x p l a i n e d a s a ra t i o n a l r e s p o n s e b y h o u s e h o l d s
t o s t r u c t u ra l d e p e n d e n c y a n d e n d e m i c p o v e r t y . C h i l d
labour at abnormally young ages was associated
especially with lone-parent households, orphans, and
children formally in the care of parish authorities. Such
children were often victims of a failure of local welfare
a r ra n g e m e n t s t o p r o v i d e a d e q u a t e c a r e t o t h e d e s t i t u t e .
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