The document summarizes child labor laws and discusses an initiative called Teach KGP that aims to educate child laborers. It notes that child labor is defined as work that interferes with a child's education or harms their health/development. Indian law prohibits employment under 14 or hazardous work. The Child Labour Act regulates children's work conditions and prohibits work from 7pm-8am or overtime. Teach KGP conducted research in their campus and found 14 child laborers aged 8-15 working over 40 hours weekly with low pay. Their curriculum aims to teach basic literacy, math, art, and life skills to help improve the children's lives through education.

1. Teach KGP

2. What is child labour?
According to the United Nations and the International
Labor Organization, child labor is to be considered if:
“...States Parties recognize the right of the child to be
protected from economic exploitation and from performing
any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with
the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health
or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.”
Indian Constitution Says
According to Article 24 of the Indian constitution, "No Child
below the age of 14 (fourteen) years shall be employed to
work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other
hazardous employment."

3. THE CHILD LABOUR (Prohibition
and Regulation) ACT, 1986
• OBJECT: To prohibit the engagement of children in certain employment’s
and to regulate the conditions of work or children in certain other
employments.
• DEFINITION: Child: Child means a person who has not completed his
fourteen years of age.
• APPLICABILITY: It extends to the whole of India
• WEEKLY HOLIDAY: Every child shall be allowed in each week a holiday of
one whole day.
• HOURS AND PERIOD OF WORK: The period of work on each day shall not
exceed three hours and no child shall work for more than three hours
before he has had an interval for rest for at least one hour.
• No child shall be permitted or required to work between 7 P.m. and 8 a.m.
• No child shall be required or permitted to work overtime.

4. Penalties
(1)Whoever employs any child or permits any child to
work in contravention of the provisions of Sec. 3 shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall
not be less than, three months but which may extend to
one year or with fine which shall not be less than ten
thousand rupees but which may extend to twenty
thousand rupees or with both.
(2) Whoever, having been convicted of an offence under
Sec. 3, commits a like offence afterwards, he shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall
not be less than six months but which may extend to
two years.

5. Current scenario inside the campus
• Presently there are 14 children in the campus, within the
age group of 8 to 15 years, who work for more than 40
hours a week. They work from early evening to wee hours
in the morning each day of the week.
• Their salaries typically range from about Rs.600 to Rs.800
per month and this is used to supplement their family
income.
• Communally they are from different backgrounds, though
most of them belong to Bengali households.
• Most are dropouts from the 1st to 4th standards; reasons
including loss of interest and circumstantial pressure.

6. Database
NO. NAME HALL AGE CURRENTEDUCATIONALSTATUS JOBDETAILS BACKGROUND
Hours - Income(pm) Address ParentalIncome Occuparion
1 Chandan MS 14 TillClass4 6pm-2am - Rs.1,000 Datun Rs.2,000 Rikshawpuller
2 Deven MS 12 TillClass2 6pm-2am - Rs.1,000 Datun Rs.3,000 WorksinBrickmill
3 Samir Gokhale 20 TillClass5 - Rs.1500-2000 Tapsia Agriculture
4 BahadurMurmu Gokhale 12 Nevergonetoschool - Rs.700 Tulipara
5 SureshRao Gokhale 14 TilllClass3 - Rs.800 Momdoesdomesticwork
6 ChandanMohan Gokhale 15 Nevergonetoschool - Rs.700 Rabindrapur Momdoesdomesticwork
7 PravashDeori Gokhale TillClass5 - Rs.1,000 Gobblepur Rs.1,500 Foodbusiness
8 Nepal LLR 10 Dropout;Tillclass3 6pmto3am - Rs800 Tudipara Rs1,500(approx) DadlabourerinIIT
9 Babu LLR 12 Dropout;Tillclass3 6pmto3am - Rs500 Tudipara Rs1,500(approx DadlabourerinIIT
10 ShahRukhKhan Dreamland 12 Nevergonetoschool Rs800 Tudipara
11 BishwajitDoloi Dreamland 11 Tillclass2 Rs800 Tudipara
12 Sanjoy Dreamland 10 Tillclass1 Rs800 Rabindrapur
13 Raju Dreamland 14 Nevergonetoschool Rs900 Prembazaar
14 Babua Nehru 14 Nevergonetoschool Rs700 Tudipara Rs2000 Labourer

7. About Teach KGP
We are presently a group of four, in our 3rd year of college.
We have been observing these conditions for a long time and
have developed a strong urge to change what we feel is unfair
and detrimental to the society. Each of us has been blessed to
have caring and well-to-do parents and are today able to
appreciate the value of education, after having gone through
years of quality education. We believe that education, of all
things, can impact the lives of these children in multiple
domains and help them lead a better life.

8. Curriculum
Initially we plan to come up with a 6 month
programme. The basic aim of this course will be to
teach the children:
 To read and write in the language they are
comfortable in (preferably Bengali and Hindi).
 Basic mathematics (in English)
 Drawing, sketching, painting exercises
 Introduction to English alphabet
 Story telling sessions to impart lessons on moral
education and general awareness

9. Children are remarkably imaginative and
resilient - but also heartbreakingly
fragile and vulnerable.
“ So let us share their dreams
And shape their future ” .

10. Contact us:
• Mikesh Udani @ 9331026922
• Sourav Das @ 9432289658
• Anurodh Vyas @ 9733739827
• Koushik Das @ 9474822629
Or email us at:
teachkgp@googlegroups.com