Scourge of child labour: effects and ways to curb sub theme-5-status of women, children and senior citizens

Child labour by definition refers to engaging children in work, thereby depriving them their childhood and their right to education. This has been a major issue of concern in developing countries for a very long time now. In India, child labour is now being recognized as a grave and enormous problem that has a long term social and physical impact on children. Working children are denied their right to survival, development, education, standard of living and opportunity for developing their personality and talent This paper aims to analyse the scourge of child labour in India, by identifying its effects on the Indian Society. After due identification, the aim is to find ways to curb this social evil and to restrict it to bare minimum The methodology of this research will be to visit hubs of child labour in and around Kota City like restaurants, dhabas, tea stalls, factories, repair shops etc to find the extent of penetration of child labour in our society. The objectives are evaluating reasons forcing children to work at this age, effect of child labour on their physical and social development and ways to curb child labour and suggesting solutions at all levels of society Results indicates that child labour can be found in nearly every industry. The persistence of child labour is due to the inefficiency of law, administrative system, lack of wage regulation, corruption, family size and condition, urban migration and opportunity cost of education. Education is a solution at all levels Strict Judiciary and political system can go a long way nipping this evil in the bud.