Child Labour in Marathwada Region of India: Problems and Remedies

Dilip R. Khairnar^1,

¹Department of Sociology, Deogiri College, Aurangabad, India

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Dilip R. Khairnar. Child Labour in Marathwada Region of India: Problems and Remedies. World Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. 2017; 3(2):50-55. doi: 10.12691/wjssh-3-2-4

Abstract

The largest number of child labours resides in India. Due to poverty and social security the number of child labourer in India exponentially increased. For this study, child labourer in Marathwada region, India selected for analysis to identify the root cause of child labour. The primary data was collected from scheduled interviews of child labours in Marathwada region. The secondary data was collected from census and statistical reports. The socio-economical factors also considered for identification of problems related to child labours. This study reveals that the age of 78.60% child labours is in between 9-14 years. The 10001-20000 is the average annual income of 88% families of child labour. 67% child labours are homeless and 44% child labours comes from divorced family. There are 35% child labours intact with their families. The child labour studies have found estimated prevalence of 87% children ate a food without nutritional value. The 33% child labours depends upon one time meal in a day for survival. Most of the child labours comes from those family, where family members are badly addicted to alcohol and tobacco. The 39% children have working as a child labour due to poor economical conditions of family. Mostly, child labours working on garages, bricks factories, waste collections and hotels in very minimum wages. The working hours of 37% child labours are more than 12 hours. The 23.20%, 39.80 and 37% child labours are badly affected by skin diseases, handicaps and infectious diseases respectively. The 79.60% child labours was found illiterate and out of school. To overcome child labour’s problems Indian constitution constitute an effective acts or laws to prevent child labour as well as the central and state government launches a various schemes to stop child labour. But due to poor implementations of schemes, political interference, government irresponsiveness, flexible clauses in laws and lack of social awareness is the main reasons of failures to stop child labour. To stop child labour the remedies such as to implement economical development schemes, make education free, increasing awareness about prevention child labour and successful implementation of the act would certainly go a long way in eradicating child labour in India.

Keywords:
child labour poverty addiction wages

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