Child labor is common in poorer communities in India due to poverty, unemployment, limited access to education, overpopulation, and urbanization. It negatively impacts children's health, education, and development. While some organizations work to address this issue, child labor remains a problem in India due to lack of access to schools and jobs for families. Addressing the root causes like poverty, improving education access, and enforcing laws against child labor are necessary to eliminate the practice.

1. CHILD LABOUR IN
INDIA

2. CHILD LABOUR
• Child labor can be defined as
the employment of children at a
regular and sustained labor. This
practice is illegal and has
become a matter of discussion
among many world
organizations.
• Child labor is mostly common
among the poorer communities
as they have to work harder in
order to survive.

3. CHILD ABUSE

4. PHYSICAL ABUSE
• Physical abuse is when a
person (adult or child)
causes another child
physical injury or harm by
hitting, punching, biting,
kicking, or burning.
Physical neglect including
not providing enough
nourishment and clothing
when parents can afford
to, is also a kind of abuse.

5. SEXUAL ABUSE
• Sexual abuse is defined as
a sexual act committed by
an adult on a child for
entirely the adult’s
pleasure. This can be in
the form of rape, sexual
molestation, sodomy,
incest, forced prostitution
of children, and
pornography.

6. PREVENTION OF CHILD
ABUSE
• As a parent, the first thing you • Listen to your child. If he is
need to do is to arm yourself trying to tell you something about
with information on abuse as an adult, don’t shoo him away.
this will enable you to recognize Encourage him to give you all the
the signs, if there are any information he can so that you
can evaluate whether he has been
• When disciplining your child, abused or not.
make sure you don’t physically
discipline him as this is not only • If you leave your child in a
an ineffective form of daycare or with a caregiver, make
punishment but is also a form sure to check for physical and
of abuse. sexual abuse and neglect

7. CAUSES IN INDIA
• Poverty and high unemployment.
• Free education is limited forcing children to work at
an early age.
• Over population.
• Urbanization: movement of people from rural areas
to big cities.
• Illiteracy

9. Poverty and High Unemployment
• Poor children and their families
may rely upon child labor in order
to improve their chances of
attaining basic necessities. About
one-fifth of the world’s 6 billion
people live in absolute poverty.
The intensified poverty in parts of
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
causes many children there to
become child laborers. In India,
the parents send the children to
sell petty items so they can have
money to buy food and other basic
amenities. This is due to the high
unemployment in the country
leaving lots of people living below
the minimum cash per capita.

10. Limited Education
• Approximately 125 million
children in the world do
not attend school, limiting
future opportunities for the
children and their
communities. The Global
Campaign for Education
estimates that free, quality
education for all children
would cost ten billion
dollars, the same as 4 days
of global military spending.

11. Over Population
• Most of the Asian and African
countries are overpopulated.
Due to limited resources and
more mouths to feed, Children
are employed in various forms
of work. Over crowding of
people causes the
unemployment to rise, leaving
a lot of people jobless. India is
now one of the most
populated countries in the
world.

12. Urbanization
• The Industrial Revolution
has its own negative side.
Many a time companies and
export industries in the
developing world employ
child workers, particularly in
the garment industry. They
move from the rural areas to
the urban cities

13. Illiteracy
Illiterate parents do not
realize the need for a
proper physical,
emotional and cognitive
development of a child.
As they are uneducated,
they do not realize the
importance of education
for their children. This
chart shows the literacy
flow in india.

14. EFFECTS
• Child labor directly affects • Child labor also exposes
the future of the children to physical and
country,destroying the mental hazards endangering
capabilities of the youths in their lives. This in turn
india,depriving them on affects thier life morally.it
pursueing thier dreams of makes the child develop
being professionals such as mentally fast which is a
architects,doctors and even dangerous sign for youths.
professional cricket players This can lead them to
as it is known cricket is very becoming gangsters and bad
important in india. people of the society.

15. EFFECTS
• Child labor also creates • It condemns a child of a
and perpetuate poverty good childhood.depriving
him many services in the
because the earnings are society as well as depriving
not substantial to him from being
sustain or be used as educated.instead,wastes
capital for other valuable time being unskilled
business oppotunities. and badly paid attimes
tortured too.

16. REACTIONS
• Child labor is recognised world wide and alot of
world organisations have stuck their necks out to
stop this bad practice. Some papers have labelled it
the slavery of the modern age. Such organisations are
• UNICEF
• ILO
• NCRC
• WFCLC

17. HOW TO REMOVE
• Child labour in India can only • Education Policy needs a
be removed, if they are constructive change.
stopped from employing for Primary education should
house hold, factory, labour be made compulsory and
intensive units, textiles free for all children below
designing units are given legal the age of fourteen years
notices from the child & without any discrimination
labour dept. & stringent laws on the basis of
are laid/punished for the sex, colour, caste, birth or
offence. other status.

18. HOW TO REMOVE
.
• The state government must
achieve the law enforcement
machinery to see that all the
legislative measures aiming
at the welfare of the child
labour are fully implemented
in occupations, where
employment of children is
permitted.

19. CONCLUSION
• Child labour is the curse to the Indian society
as well as our Economy. Along with the
government we also have to know about our
responsibilities and should take corrective
measures to stop child labour, so that we can
have a better and developed India.

20. THANK YOU..