CAUSES
OF CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA AND ITS EFFECT ON THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY
India is home to over a billion people and one of the major
problems is not only corruption but it also is child labour.
There are 10.1 million children employed (4.5million are
girls and 5.6 million are boys) are mainly forced to work in: Tea plantations
Cotton plantations
Matches and fireworks
Mining
Lock making industries
The state of Uttar Pradesh itself has an astonishing 2.1
million laborers while the state of Bihar has a Million laborers and Tamil Nadu
has 125,000 laborers
Some of the major causes of child labour identified by UNICEF
are “The poverty and illiteracy of a child’s parents, the family’s social and
economic circumstances, a lack of awareness about the harmful effects of child
labour, lack of access to basic and meaningful quality education and skills
training, high rates of adult unemployment and under-employment, and the
cultural values of the family and surrounding society.”
Juveniles that are absolutely unaware are also at a very high
risk of being forced into this business.
As it has been stated by ‘Poverties’ “Everyone agrees that
child labor is a plague but most families know they don’t have much choice: not
putting a child to work means there won’t be enough food on the table for
everyone.”
Another major cause would be the lack of option for a family.
So how about this is looked into and the world is given a
better choice to help eradicate and save the young souls.
Child Labour is at an all-time high in scheduled tribes and
the kids are subject to physical, sexual and emotional abuse. This is a bad
omen for the future of the country, where its backward classes remain trapped
in their backward socio-economic setup.
The physiological and the physiological effects of child
labour leave an unmanageable number of people with mental health issues in the
upcoming generations.
Due to unhygienic work conditions and an extremely tight work
schedule all lead to a very lower morale of kids sending them into depression
and the dirty work space and bad healthcare lead to a greater mortality rate
and in turn obscuring the country’s economic growth due to the lack of an
efficient workforce that can only be achieved by a greater literacy rate.
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