CHILD LABOUR

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Child Labour in Seemapuri
Introduction and Firozabad
About Child Labour
01 02 Mukesh and Saheb-e-
Alam’s Story

Statistics Rehabilitaion
Some Statistical Data
03 04 Steps taken by the
government and NGOs
 01
Introduction
 What is Child Labour?

Child labour refers to the exploitation of

children through forcing them to work
which deprives them of their childhood and
harms their physical and mental
development.
 More About Child Labour
● Children are roped in to
help their families due to
poverty, lack of amenities,
lack of education.

● For some families income

from their children's
labour is between 25 and
40% of the household
income.
 02
Child Labour in Seemapuri and
Firozabad
 Child Labour in Seemapuri

● Children like Saheb-E-Alam are a part

of the 5,00,000 people that are
engaged in rag picking in Delhi.
● They work in the garbage dumps
where they are exposed to used
syringes, rusted iron and toxic
chemicals.
● Where they earn a meagre wage for
the long hours they put in every
single day.
Child Labour In Seemapuri

● Seemapuri’s appearance hasn’t

changed much in the past few
decades.
● Lack of basic amenities and
rampant crime plague the youth
of the slums.
● The absence of a school in the
area, which was mentioned by
Saheb-e-Alam in the story is still
being felt by the children to this
day.
 Child Labour in Firozabad
● “Suhaag Nagri” of Firozabad is now considered by many as a
“child labour market”, most of whom are employed in the
bangle making industry.
● 95% of the population of this town is engaged in glasswork.
● Out of 60,000 workers 9,000 to 11,00 are children
constituting 16-19% of the workforce.
 Child Labour In Firozabad
● Children like Mukesh are exposed to harsh working
conditions.
● Working close to high temperature furnaces, inhaling soot,
fumes and dust, for long periods of time in tight, poorly
ventilated places amounts to permanent health damage.
● Lead poisoning due to contaminated water is another
common occurrence.
03
Statistics
Percentage of Children engaged at various stages
of glass prodcution

Stage of
%of children Level of Skill
Production

Sorting 25.6 Low

Straightening 30.0 Low

Cutting 23.3 Moderate

Age distribution of rag pickers in Seemapuri

8.20%
AGE 6-8 YEARS

AGE 12-14 YEARS

49.40%
42.20% AGE 9-11 YEARS
04
Rehabilitation
 Rehabilitation

● The Government formulated a National Policy on Child

Labour in 1987 which seeks to adopt a gradual &
sequential approach of rehabilitation of children working
in hazardous occupations.
● In 1988, this led to the National Child Labour Project
(NCLP) initiative. This legal and development initiative
continues, with a current central government funding of
Rs. 6 billion, targeted solely to eliminate child labour in
India.
 Rehabilitation

● Several NGOs have been working for the upliftment of

ragpickers.
● Phia Foundation, which is running an urban education
program in Ghaziabad, NCR, and Delhi, has been working with
children in ragpicking communities to provide them with
access to basic schooling, nutrition, and healthcare.
● IPCA, based out of New Delhi, has developed a specific
curriculum for the students, which is taught by the youth of
the ragpicking community to younger children.
THANKS
Made by Group 3:
• Aditya Yadav,
• Aman Pratap,
• Anshu Sharma,
• Rohan Mehra
• Sujal Das