This presentation is about World day against child labor which tells about the importance of celebration, this year's theme, child labor, CLPR Act 1986, factories act 1948, mines act 1952, Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) of Children Act 2015, Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, national child labor project 1988.

2. The World Day Against Child
Labour
 International Labour Organization (ILO)
 first launched in 2002
 aiming to raise awareness and activism to
prevent child labour
 minimum age for employment and the worst forms of
child labour.
 held every year on June 12

4. Child labour
 the exploitation of children through any form of work
that deprives children of their childhood, interferes
with their ability to attend regular school, and is
mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful.
 Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation
worldwide, although these laws do not consider all
work by children as child labour; exceptions include
work by child artists, family duties, supervised training

5. THEME OF THIS YEAR

6. STATISTICS, 2011
 In 2011, the national census of India found the total
number of child labourers, aged [5–14], to be at 10.1
million, out of the total of 259.64 million children in
that age group.
 The child labour problem is not unique to India;
worldwide, about 217 million children work, many full-
time.

7. Child and Adolescent Labour
(Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
amended in 2016
("CLPR Act")

8.  below the age of 14
 CLPR Act prohibits employment of a Child in any
employment including as a domestic help.
 Children between age of 14 and 18 are defined as
"Adolescent" and the law allows Adolescent to be employed
except in the listed hazardous occupation and processes
which include
 - mining
 - inflammable substance
 - explosives related work and any other hazardous process
as per the Factories Act, 1948.
 In 2001, an estimated 1% of all child workers, or about
1,20,000 children in India were in a hazardous job.
 UNICEF estimates that India with its larger population, has
the highest number of labourers in the world under 14
years of age
 The International Labour Organization estimates that
agriculture, at 60 percent, is the largest employer of child
labour in the world

9. Factories Act, 1948
 The Act prohibits the employment of children below
the age of 14 years in any factory.

10. Mines Act, 1952
 The Act prohibits the employment of children below
18 years of age in a mine.

11. Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) of Children
Act, 2015
 This law made it a crime, punishable with a prison
term, for anyone to keep a child in bondage for the
purpose of employment.

12. INITIATIVES
 The Ministry of Labour and Employment had implemented
around 100 industry-specific National Child Labour Projects to
rehabilitate the child workers since 1988.
Non-governmental organisations
 Bachpan Bachao Andolan
 ChildFund
 CARE India
 Talaash Association
 Child Rights and You
 Global march against child labour
 GoodWeave India
 RIDE India
 Childline etc. have been working to eradicate child labour in
India.

13. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act, 2009
 The law mandates free and compulsory education to all children
aged 6 to 14 years.
 This legislation also mandated that 25 per cent of seats in every
private school must be allocated for children from economically
disadvantaged groups (implementation gaps remain).
 India formulated a National Policy on Child Labour in 1987. This
Policy seeks to adopt a gradual & sequential approach with a
focus on rehabilitation of children working in hazardous
occupations.
 In 1988, this led to the National Child Labour Project (NCLP)
initiative. to eliminate child labour in India.
 Despite these efforts, child labour remains a major challenge for
India. No, child below age of 14 years shall be employed to work
in any factory or mine or engaged in any hazardous employment

14. REFERENCE
 www.wikipedia.com

15. TAPAN KUMAR MAHATO
tapan.mahato@gmail.com