Prohibition of child labour

PROHIBITION OF CHILD LABOUR

Introduction

            For the development and prosperity of a county, the youngsters should be well educated. But we can see the issue of child labour all over the world. In India, in remote areas people are not aware of the importance of education and there is exploitation of young children. Even in cities this problem exists. Therefore our government has put forward various laws and acts to eradicate this evil.

  Child Labour

·         Practice of having engaging the children in economic activities as part or full time basis.

·         This practice deprives children of their childhood and is harmful to their physical and mental development.

Causes

     *Poverty

     *Lack of good schools and growth of informal economy

     *Illiteracy of parents

     * Excess number of children in the family.

     *Lack of proper transportation facility etc.

( Article 24 prohibits hazardous child labour of children under 14 years)

MAJOR ACTS RELATED TO CHILD ABOUR

1.The Factories Act (1948)

This prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 years in any factory.

2. The Mines Act (1952)

 This prohibits the employment of children below 18 years of age in a mine.

3.The child & adolescent labour (Prohibition and Regulation Act, 1986)

This prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 years in hazardous occupations (exception…domestic work, work of child artists, sports activities etc.)

This act is amended in 2016 as :

·         Addition of a new category of persons called “adolescent”. It defines children between 14 to 18 years as adolescents and bars their employment in any hazardous occupations.

The act makes child labour a cognizable offence. Employing children below 14 years will attract a jail term between 6 months to two years (earlier 3 months to 1 year) or a penalty between twenty-thousand to fifty thousand rupees or both for the first time. Repeat offenders will attract imprisonment between 1 year to 3 years (6 months to 2 years). In case, the offender is a parent, it provides a relaxed penal provision and proposes ·         a fine of Rs.10,000 for repeat offence committed by parent.

·         The act has a provision of creating Rehabilitation Fund for the rehabilitation of children.

4. The Juvenile justice (Care and protection of ) Children Act, 2000

It is a crime punishable with a prison term for anyone to procure or employ a child in any hazardous employment.

5.RTE,2009.

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