Two Senses Of Child Labour

“The term Child Labour is at times used as synonym for employed child or working child. The chairman of the U.S. National Child Labour Committee, defined child labour as “Any work by children that interfered with their full physical development, their opportunities for a desirable minimum of education or their recreation”1

Distinguishing between two senses of child labour, V.V. Giri opined: “The term child labour is commonly interpreted in two different ways: First as an economic practices and secondly as a social evil”.2

Thus in a narrow sense child labourmeans the employment of children in gainful occupation which are dangerous to their health and deny them the opportunities of developments.

In the same line of thinking, Kulshreshtha is of

It is very shocking that there are still same political considerations, that encourage child labour in our country and for which the safeguards extended for prevention of child labour, are not implemented effectively. The foremost of this being the fact that the children are not the voters and hence, do not constitutes a political pressures groups’. This eventually make, no politician interested to their about and salve the problems relating to child labour. Furthermore, the children are mostly silent leisters or non – leisters of the policies / programmes meant for them and hence, their problems are not properly

So they can be put to do any jobs without much difficulty and they are also more active and quick. Employers find them more amenable to discipline and control.

2.1.4 Lack of Educational Facilities

It is widely accepted that immediate and poor educational facilities as well as the neglect of the enforcement of free and compulsory education for all children below the age 14 years leads to child labour. Because of prevalent of poverty their families are not able to afford the expenditure on education, however, less it may be. Education facilities were not available for girls belonging to traditional families have purdah among the families.

2.1.5 Illiteracy and Ignorance of Parents

In India, the lower income groups are mostly illiterates. They are forced to think only of present and not of the future. A seminar on employment of children had in December 1975 indicated that “child labour” is prevalent extensively in labour services economic group because of lack of opportunities on their part of the role that education plays in improving life and living standards of the people”

The study found that the educational status of parents whose children were found doing chicken work was very poor. In most cases the mother