I don't think there is anything right with child labor.
Childhood is the age in which kids enjoy their life and study and understand the world.

They will gather knowledge from their childhood and will make themselves eligible to survive in this competitive world.

So as a kid every child has the right to enjoy his life and visit school to gather knowledge.

Those who are working as child should understand the importance of knowledge and their parents should realize about this and so they should not allow their kids to work somewhere and allow them to study.

Working burdens at such a small age may ruin their life as they will miss those days which are not going to come back again.
People should understand the importance of knowledge and respect there small ages and should offer them education rather than offering job.

"I don't like the concept of 'CHILD LABOR'!"

Dear Friends,

India is in second position for account of child labor and South Africa is first.

80% child labor is in agricultural field. As we know if children are below age of 14 years then if he works that means he is child labor.

I think child labor is not much good things but if Govt. do arrangement of education with labor work than it may be some good news for them.

If education is not with work that means no growth for them that is biggest disadvantage for child labor.

The term Child Labor is used for employment of children below a certain age, which is considered illegal by law and custom. The stipulated age varies from country to country and government to government. Child labor is a world phenomenon which is considered exploitative and inhuman by many international organizations.

Child Labor began to be considered a human rights issue and became an issue of public dispute, when the foundation of universal schooling was laid. Historically the transformation came with the industrial revolution and the emergence of concepts like children’s rights and worker’s right’s. Child labor is widely prevalent in some form or the other, all over the world. The term is used for domestic work, factory work, agriculture, mining, quarrying, having own work or business’ like selling food etc, helping parent’s business and doing odd jobs. Children are regularly employed to guide tourists, sometimes doubling up as a marketing force to bring in business for shop owners and other business establishment.

According to the statistics given by International Labor Organization there are about 218 million children between the age of 5 and 17 working all over the world. The figure excludes domestic labor. The most condemned form of child labor is the use of children for military purpose and child prostitution. Child agricultural works, child singers and child actors outside of school hours during season time are more acceptable by champions of human rights and law. The phenomenon of child labor is a complex development issue worthy of investigation. The fact that vulnerable children are being exploited and forced into work, which is not fit for their age, is a human rights concern now. India and other developed and developing countries are really plagued by the problem of child employment in organized and unorganized sectors.


The causes of child labor in the contemporary world are the same as those in U.S. hundred years ago- namely poverty, lack of education and exposure, poor access to education, suppression of workers rights, partial prohibition of child labor and inadequate enforcement of child labor laws.


Child labor in India is a human right issue for the whole world. It is a serious and extensive problem, with many children under the age of fourteen working in carpet making factories, glass blowing units and making fireworks with bare little hands. According to the statistics given by Indian government there are 20 million child laborers in the country, while other agencies claim that it is 50 million.

In Northern India the exploitation of little children for labor is an accepted practice and perceived by the local population as a necessity to alleviate poverty. Carpet weaving industries pay very low wages to child laborers and make them work for long hours in unhygienic conditions. Children working in such units are mainly migrant workers from Northern India, who are shunted here by their families to earn some money and send it to them. Their families dependence on their income, forces them to endure the onerous work conditions in the carpet factories.

The situation of child laborers in India is desperate.Children work for eight hours at a stretch with only a small break for meals. The meals are also frugal and the children are ill nourished. Most of the migrant children who cannot go home, sleep at their work place, which is very bad for their health and development. Seventy five percent of Indian population still resides in rural areas and are very poor. Children in rural families who are ailing with poverty perceive their children as an income generating resource to supplement the family income. Parents sacrifice their children’s education to the growing needs of their younger siblings in such families and view them as wage earners for the entire clan.

In villages when children labor work more?

At the time of water supply for farm.
On home and other construction works.
Cutting of goat, buffaloes and other animals.
For Home daily works.
For selling and buying vegetables and other things.
For Cutting of crops and other crop works etc.
Other works.

Child labor is one of heinous crime.People who are using

children for labor should be punished severely.Parents who are

not able to give their children proper childhood should avoid

giving birth.well, India has laws to deal with child labor .but,

they are not implemented in proper way.

Government has provided child education almost

free with many other facilities.Alone government can't do much

about this unless people make aware of it.

AS PER GD TOPIC: "What is wrong with child labor? Your views."

Problem is exist for those people who are not educated and they did not understand value of education that is reason that they do not stop his children for work or for making him child labor.

All reason behind this matter is education.

The child stage is very important stage in human life. This is the life span for grooming up, getting education for good citizenship, good worker and valuable member of society. Education up to at least secondary level is must for everyone. To force children to work is great injustice to them as well as society at large.
The poor sections of society are forced to send their children for work as they do not have sufficient income to send their children to school. Instead the children are source of income to them. This further encourages them for more children as a child means more family income.
There are restriction in factory law on employment of children. The children above the age of fifteen can be allowed to work as apprentice under guidance of experts. The hours of work for the apprentices are lesser. The purpose of apprentice training is mainly education and not work.
It is high time the children are given free and compulsory education upto class VIII. The factories and other establishments must be strictly forced to abide by law restricting employment of children. many children are employed in glass industry at Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh) , where they have to work in inhuman conditions consisting of intolerable heat and even proper drinking water and cold drink is not given to them. The labor Department is bribed by the factories and establishments. By initiation of this discussion, we may highlight the failure of labor Department

Santosh Kumar Singh wrote:
[quote]Problem is exist for those people who are not educated and they did not understand value of education that is reason that they do not stop his children for work or for making him child labor."[/quote]


But many of the people employing the children are an educated people. But still they do not hesitate to employ the children as they would have to pay less and maybe because they are easier to manage. And nothing can be worse than these thoughts.

Unfortunately, exploiting children seems to a part and parcel of our society including in social functions. For instance, in Rajasthan small boys of around 10 years of age are employed to accompany the 'baraat' carrying electric lamps on their head which is very dangerous.

Child labor is bad as childhood is the age for learning. It is injustice to children and also to the society. Who knows that the child spending his childhood as labor may be a good scientist if given proper environment. The society also loses the potential of the future citizens by deploying them as cheap labor in restaurants, cycle shops, bangle factories and so on.
However, when a child has received at least secondary level education, there is nothing wrong in employing him as a trainee/ apprentice. There are many things that only a child can do. The role of child character cannot be played by an adult. There are many trades where adults are unsuitable because of their size. It may be okay to make law for employment of children in such trades for shorter hours keeping in view the education needs and health of child.