A Child Labour Problem In India

After independence Child labour is a major problem in India. The major determinate child labour is Poverty. plain though children are paid less then adults, what ever income they take a crap is of benefit to poor families. India has the largest number of children employed than any other uncouth in the world. According to the statistics provided by the Govt. f India around 90 one thousand trillion out of 179 million children in the six to 14 age groups do not go to school and are engaged in or so occupation or other whole shebang. This means 50% of children are deprived of their right to a free and happy childhood. Unofficially, this figure exceeds 100 million but the fact that a large number of children are works without wages in field or in cottage on base their parents, unreported by census, makes it very difficult to estimate accurately.However, it is estimated that if there work children constituted a country it would be the 11th largest country in the world. A large nu mber of children work in a cottage industries, matches, firecrackers, bidis, brassware, diamond, aluminum industries, glass, hosiery, hand loomed cloth, embroidery, leather goods, plastic bangles, mica mines, coal mines, hotels, ricksha puller, local liquor industry, auto shop, vegetable shop Brick in and white goods.The highest numbers of children are found in agricultural sector. Poverty has a lot been cited as the reason for child labour problem in India slice it is true that the poorest, most disadvantaged sector of Indian Society provide the vast majority of child labourers, child labour actually creates an perpetuates pauperisation as it displaces adults from their jobs and also condemns the child to a life of unskilled soberly paid work.