10 Shocking Facts About Child Labor Laws In India
Leave about the worst countries suffering from child labor problem, have a look at the most shocking facts about child labor laws in India.
1. Kids working are mostly unpaid and often work under dangerous conditions, which is already illegal in India.
2. By the time, a child working in these hazardous condition grows up and decides about his career, he is not allowed to give up on work and pursue in any other option, which leads to ‘forced Labor’.
3. According to ILO trafficking of girls from Nepal to India takes place for the purpose of sex trade, who are pushed to flesh trade in the name of recruiting children for carpet factories.
4. Children are forced to work in places like fire crackers and matchstick factories, because their parents have been working there.
5. Loans given to labor class family has no written record and time to pay back the money remains undetermined. However, the price is paid by these little kids working as slave.
6. Most of the children working in these hazardous atmosphere put in an average of 21 hours of labor per week.
7. If a person is unable to satisfy the needs of his family, they push their children in child labor to earn daily food.
8. These working children remain underdeveloped at many levels, be it intellectually, emotionally, physically or psychologically.
9. Shockingly, the ratio of girls involved in child labor is more than that of boys.
10. Besides working for family, these trafficked kids are pushed to merciless business of begging or as a sex worker.
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