A STUDY ON CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA

AUTHOR – AATHIRAJAN M, STUDENT AT TAMILNADU DR.AMBEDKAR LAW UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN LAW

BEST CITATION – AATHIRAJAN M, A STUDY ON CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (4) OF 2025, PG. 1003-1011, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

ABSTRACT

      Child labour is a serious problem from numerous decades and a challenge for numerous developing countries. It has was over the centuries not only in the impoverished areas of developing countries but also in developed countries until the morning of the 20th century. numerous countries have legislated colorful laws and have taken serious action to annihilate child labour, yet still the problem is veritably wide throughout the world. The problem of child labour appears in severe form and colorful factors are involved with it. The causes for the prevalence of child labour in India are complex and deeply embedded into the society. Poverty seems to be the main cause. Child labour can be set up in both civic and pastoral areas. still the vast maturity of child labour occurs in pastoral areas since poverty is more rampant. Although numerous poor pastoral families struggle for a better life in civic areas, this pushes families to force their children to work in order to increase the family income and insure survival. This paper analysis the colorful responsible factors for child labour and attempts to find out those areas where there’s demarcation in child labour. In addition the ideal of this paper is to make a critical analysis of child labour in India. The findings reveal that child labour was a serious wrong for the developing country- India. But now as per tale report 2011, The total number of working children in the country has declined from 1.26 crore as per the tale 2001 to 43.53 lakh as per tale 2011 which shows 65 percent reduction. Keywords: child labour, forms, factors, discrimination,