The Issue of Child Labor in India: Where Rubber Hits the Road?
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The problem of child labor in India is a kind of social threatening and causing damage to very fabrics of a social environment. It has remained both an economic and a social problem since a long time in India. According to the latest report more than 100 million children below the age of 14 years are toiling in different corners of India. Since different culture and society defines childhood in different manner Government polices and programmes should be culturally and geographically specific. In the Indian context, there has been a tendency to formulate the definition of child labour rather loosely. Even in the Labour Commission Report all working children are taken as one hardly differentiated category. It is also revealed that there are many reasons other than economic compulsion to perpetuate child labour. In this paper an attempt made to examine the different issues and prospectives of child labor problem in India emphasizing policy options reviewing various secondary literatures and authors own field experiences
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