Law Min nod to revising upper age limit in child labour act

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Law Min nod to revising upper age limit in child labour act

New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI) The Law Ministry is understood to have given its nod for bringing an amendment to a child labour act prohibiting engaging children below the age of 18 years in certain hazardous occupations. Sources in the Labour and Employment Ministry said the necessary amendment in the Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act, 1986 was long felt so as to bring child labour related issues in conformity with international standards. At present, as per the Act, children below the age of 14 could not be engaged in hazardous occupations. The issue was discussed at the meeting of the Committee on Conventions under the Labour and Employment Ministry today. The issue came up in the context of a discussion on the prospects of ratification of an ILO convention for elimination of the worst forms of child labour. India is among a few countries which is yet to ratify convention No 182 of ILO as it has maintained that it needs to take all stakeholders on board before taking a decision on it. Sources said while the Law Ministry has already given its consent to the amendment, no time frame has been fixed to carry out the amendment. The meeting which was chaired by Labour and Employment Secretary Prabhat Chaturvedi was attended by representatives of all central employers' organisations, trade unions, state governments and International Labour Organisation (ILO). Chaturvedi informed the committee about the adoption of ILO recommendation relating to HIV/AIDS by International Labour Conference in June, 2010 in Geneva.

Child labor laws in India

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Child labor laws in India  

The most violated human rights are children rights. Around 185,000 children are working as domestic labour (2001 census). Is the most highlighted problem globally. 

The children’s are being forced in many labour works, domestic works, bonded labour, rag picking, forced to work in roadside eateries, prostitution, in factories etc. 

Causes:

Poverty, child trafficking, ignorance of parents, discrimination of gender, children are easily targeted only for the reason that they cannot raise their voice as adults. 

Child Labour lawa India : 

Children who are engaged in labour work for economic gains, harmful works or hazardous works below the age of 14 years.

In India there are many Laws enacted to protect the rights of children which are as follows:

The Child Labour Act, 1986.

The Factories Act, 1948

The Mines Act, 1952

The Bonded Labour System Abolition Act

Constitutional provisions:

Article 24 provides: strictly prohibits children to work in hazardous environment.

Article 21, 45 gives the right to education to all the children below the age of 14years.

Article 39 declares the duty of the State to provide the children a free and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity. 

Child labour in domestic work has been strictly banned by the Government, because of the increased cases of child abuse and sexual abuse of children especially girl child. 

The government has a special cell to help children in exploitive circumstances. These cells comprise of social inspectors, as well as other administrative personnel, employed specifically to deal with child labour issues. 

There are many organization which aims to stop the child labour on global level such as CRY, UNICEF, ILO etc. 

To stop child labour is not only governments but each individual’s social responsibility, as children are assets of a nation.