Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2016

Education vs Child labour

Dr. Fatima Shanawaz

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 Child labour is one most major social evil that requires most effective and be-fitting strategy to deal with it. It is a phenomenon which is existing everywhere on the globe in different degree. India- our country is badly facing this problem with regard to the problem of child labour. International labour Organization (ILO) as well as International Programme on the Elimination of child Labour (IPEC) contend child labour as “Work situation where children are compelled to work on a regular basis to earn a living for themselves and families”. Moreover, they described child labour for resulting educational and social backwardness and the children work in conditions that are exploitative and damaging to their physical health and mental development as children being a child labour are separated from their families, often deprived of educational and training opportunities and subsequently children are forced to lead prematurely adult lives. Child labour seems to be an unnatural act forced to be performed by children that deprive children for pursuing education and enhancing their quality of life in a longer perceptive. For such unnatural and illegal act carried on by children are the functions of numerous factors that be identified before developing any intervention strategy to cope with the problem of child labour. It is therefore, necessary to have the genesis of this social problem. In quest of identifying the reasons which compel children to work for earning living for themselves and/or for their family, a survey was conducted on some families’ parents and their children for identifying the real forces which have forced the parents to keep their children for working in quest of earning living. At length, it is imperative to highlight on the basis of field survey research that child labour is basically is the function of lack of awareness of parents and the children about the benefits of education, illiteracy of the family members itself, poverty, general unemployment, etc. Moreover, government lack of concern with poor people especially living below poverty line and also the corruption faced by these people while any effort is being made for implementing the laws for protecting children to under-take child labour and also the failure of the implementing agency to provide better conditions of life both economically and educationally. At least, it is to say that child labour is a great social evil that must be eradicate provided they and their family are assured for adequate living free from extreme poverty.

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Dr. Fatima Shanawaz Education vs Child labour Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol: 5, Issue : 3 March 2016

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