Child labour
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This document discusses the problem of child labor in India. It outlines several factors that contribute to child labor, including family illiteracy, poverty, lack of education, and social acceptance of girls not receiving schooling. The document also describes the challenges faced by child laborers, such as long work hours for low pay, health risks, and lack of education or job training. It proposes several solutions, like enforcing laws against child labor, providing alternative schooling and job training for working children, improving the school environment, and raising public awareness on child labor issues through events on June 12th and November 14th.
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Child labour
- 1. Dr. S. Prakash Principal Thiagarajar College of Preceptors, Madurai
- 4. A Large number of children under the age of 14 serving as menials in Hotels, Factories, Agricultural firms, Shops or Work shop to earn a paltry sum as wage. Most of the very young girls are employed as domestic maid servants to do house hold work. These are the children whom we call ‘CHILD- LABOUR’.
- 5. Factors Related to Family Environment Factors Related to Economic Conditions of the Family Factors Related to Social Environment in Family Education Related Factors
- 6. Illiteracy of parents Parents being Alcoholic addicts Elder children have to take care of the younger siblings at home. No permanent dwelling place.
- 7. Factors Related to Economic conditions of the Family Most of the Young children take up some odd jobs to augment the income of the poverty-ridden family. For those parents who are not able to provide one square meal a day to the children , sending them to school is a luxury. Ill –health and old-age of parents.
- 8. Most parents in the society think that girls need not be educated. Forcing the girl children to help in the household chorus of close relatives and others. Children who run away from their homes end up as food servers or table cleaners in town restaurants.
- 9. Education Related Factors Lack of aptitude of children in education Teachers’ high-handedness and corporal punishments given in schools frighten the children. Education remains uninteresting for children; the learning process is not made a joyful affair.
- 10. CHILD-LABOURERS’ PLIGHT / PROBLEMS Children working as child-labourers miss the joyful childhood days and the curiosity to learn and are forced to work than 8 hours per day. They are treated almost as bonded labourers. Though they work for more than 8 hours a day like adult labourers, they are not paid wages on par with them. Female child-labourers become prey for sex torture and some of them become unwed mothers.
- 11. Due to bad companionship, most of the child- labourers become addicted to intoxicants like alcohol, opium, smoking etc.. These children are neither educated nor vocationally trained and their productivity is very low. The problem of child-labour eats away the potential human resources of our country, apart from affecting our exports as a result of producing poor quality goods by employing cheap child-labour available.
- 12. Governments’ penal actions The law banning the child-labour should be enforced seriously. The vigilance squad officers including the inspectors of health and industrial safety should conduct surprise raids periodically to book the employers violating the ban of child-labour and get them awarded maximum punishment including jail term and high amount of penalty.
- 13. All the voluntary agencies working in a particular area, concerned with the protection of child-rights and eradication of child-labour should get united and coordinate their functions in surveying the children (below the age of 15) living in that area, meeting the parents of former child-labourers and offer suitable personal counselling, arranging for the child labourers non-formal education classes, short term training courses in cottage industries, undertaking awareness programmes among the general public on child-labour etc…
- 14. Make the school climate and educational practices more pleasant and warm The school climate should neither be intimating nor insulting the children. Teacher-pupil ratio should be low so as to pay increased individual attention to students. Better educational practices like Activity Based Learning(ABL) , Playway method of teaching etc. should be strengthened. Schools should be clean and neat.
- 15. In unavoidable conditions, when children are not able to attend schools, they should have opportunities to attend alternate schools which work on a fixed daily schedule, convenient to child-labourers. Industrial establishments should also be encouraged to provide part-time education to its young employees. The scheme of SARVA SIKSHAABIYAN should be vigorously implemened.
- 16. June 12th is observed every year as the ‘Child- Labour Eradication Day. On that day special programmes like processions, organising human-chain, cycle-processions, cultural events etc. could be organised to increase public awareness about child-labour. on November 14th (Birthday of Nehru) when Children’s Day is observed, as part of it child- labour awareness programmes could be under taken.
- 17. It is very heartening to note that the number of school drop-outs and children unattending schools are decreasing year which is itself an indication of the slow eradication of the system of child-labour.