CHILD LABOUR LAWS UNDER INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM
THE LAWWAY WITH LAWYERS JOURNAL VOLUME:-7 ISSUE NO:- 7 , DECEMBER 17, 2023 ISSN (ONLINE):- 2584-1106 Website: www.the lawway with lawyers.com Email: thelawwaywithelawyers@gmail.com CHILD LABOUR LAWS UNDER INDIAN LEGAL SYSTEM Authored by:- Muskaan Garg B.A LLB Gitarattan International Business School ABSTRACT Child labour means working of children or forced them to do work for the earnings. Child labour is still prevalent in India especially in pastoral areas. Children used to work due to numerous reasons similar as poverty, unemployment, lack of good schools etc. not only that child labour is very harmful as it affect the physical as well as the internal development of the child. Indeed by this their childhood is also destroying. We have seen on roads that how they used to do beggar so that they can fulfil their basic needs. Many children do work so that they can earn and fulfil their family with that earnings. The primary end of this composition is to colourful vittles and legal fabrics in India legislated to help child labour. It also shed lights on various challenges that hamper the goal of child labour in India. This article gives an outstanding view on the child labour and their major problems. It also give the measures or the policies taken by the government of India to control this. Its high time to understand the concept of child labour in rural areas especially. -Keyword: Child labour, children, India INTRODUCTION Child labour is principally that work that deprives the childhood, their growing years not only that it even harm physical and mental development due to this they won’t be able to grow properly. They don’t even get the environment as they grow up in the backward society where from the Day of birth they were told to work and help their family. The girl child was born then she was forced to do work and taught her to do all the household work because she was born to do that task. Child labour is one of the most important factor for the overall development of country. As if the children work and not get education then the country economy can’t be boost. As youth are the upcoming future if the country and if they are not there then one country can’t be developed. Even many acts were passed where it was mentioned that all those who employed children of below 14years of age are punishable by law. In this composition it also tells about the condition of the children whom are working and how the government take initiatives to control this. As it was the one of the human trafficking too that people used to do with them. Many amendments and acts were passed to control this. So that they can secure the future of the youth of India. As they were the one who boost the Indian economy in later times. Even right against exploitation is one of the basic fundamental right which was guaranteed in the Indian constitution. Despite its efforts and numerous legal frameworks, India continues to lag behind many other countries in achieving this. CHILD LABOUR AND CAUSES TO INDIA “Child” as defined is a person who has not completed the age of fourteen years. A child of such tender age is expected to play, study and be carefree about his life. Children’s work needs to be seen as happening along a continuum, with destructive or exploitative work at one end and beneficial work – promoting or enhancing children’s development without interfering with their schooling, recreation and rest – at the other. And between these two poles are vast areas of work that need not negatively affect a child’s development. Child labour in earlier times was a practised which was done so that their children can be engaged in the profitable or non-economic activities and induce the income for the same. By birth this was made them clear that their duty is to serve the family and take over the family needs. By this their physical and internal development got worse. Due to this their childhood, which was the most pivotal period of the child was taken down as in that period only their body grow. The term child labour is defined for the work that would restrict children from entering education. Children by this move to various hazardous work which may cause serious illness and occasionally that also lead to death. In India, the slavery system leads to child labour by instilling in families the belief that females are burden. As utmost of the times child labour was done by the females of the family. By birth it was clear in pastoral families that they were meant to do household and serve family in every way possible and if they didn’t do so then they were also held liable for all the task. India has been furnished with numerous reforms for the upliftment of children and has created a huge impact in tackling the problem of child labour but still, there has not been a complete eradication of child labour and the problems continue. CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR POVERTY Poverty has direct link with child labour. As families in rural areas are poor and they made their children as the source of income so that they can fulfil all the needs of them. These families have to survive, so to survive only they used their children and made them do the dangerous work, even sometimes risking their life. This was seen in the developing countries where they cannot control the population, as in rural areas their family members are large in number. PREVIOUS DEBTS So as their conditions are not good they used to borrow money from the moneylender. If they won’t be able to pay off the debt they have taken on the high interest rate then they have to sell their children to pay the debt or to leave their house and gave it to the moneylender. Due to insufficiency