A Child Labour Problem In India

After independence Child drive is a major problem in India. The major determinate child labour is pauperization. Even though children be paid less then adults, what perpetually income they earn is of benefit to poor families. India has the largest number of children employed than any former(a) province in the world. According to the statistics provided by the Govt. f India around 90 million out of 179 million children in the six to 14 time groups do not go to school and argon engaged in some occupation or other works. This means 50% of children are deprived of their right to a free and happy childhood. Unofficially, this figure exceeds blow million but the fact that a large number of children are works without wages in field or in bungalow alongside their parents, unreported by census, makes it very difficult to estimate accurately.However, it is estimated that if in that location working children constituted a country it would be the 11th largest country in the world. A lar ge number of children work in a cottage industries, matches, firecrackers, bidis, brassware, diamond, aluminum industries, glass, hosiery, hand loomed cloth, embroidery, leather goods, plastic bangles, mica mines, char mines, hotels, rickshaw puller, local liquor industry, auto shop, vegetable shop Brick in and sporting goods.The highest numbers of children are found in agricultural sector. Poverty has often been cited as the reason for child labour problem in India while it is true that the poorest, most disadvantaged sector of Indian company supply the vast majority of child labourers, child labour truly creates an perpetuates poverty as it displaces adults from their jobs and also condemns the child to a life of botched badly paid work.