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Child Labour

Kumari Sonali

Child Labour:

The Centre does not have any data on child labour in the country and a reason for this is the drying up of budgetary provisions meant for the National Child Labour Project (NCLP), which had been monitoring the issue for about three decades.

  • Since the NCLP was merged with the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan in 2016, the labour Ministry has no records of child labour.
  • The currently available data is of the 2011 Census, which says the country has more than a million child labourers.
    Education Ministry also does not have a mechanism to find out the number of children engaged in child labour.
  • Though India has a legislation, the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, since 1986 the menace of child labour is continue unchecked.

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