CHILD LABOR IN INDIA: PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

Children are gifts of God. They are blooming flowers of the garden. It is, therefore, a duty on the part of each member of society to protect those flowers from each and every kind of damaging effect. The energy, genius and mental faculty of every child should be properly channelised, trained and educated for the socio-economic and politico-cultural growth of the country. It is also the birth right of every child, who cries for justice from every nook and corner of the globe. Many studies have shown that help and assistance to the children in family trade, business and occupation, family, agricultural operations and domestic service has been the normal feature in a lower strata and weaker section of the Indian society. In lower and lower middle class, children are forced to join the jobs unsuited to their mental health and physique. In spite of joining school and blooming in full they become vulnerable to low paid wage-earners, the child labor.