An Exploratory Research on Child Labour Eradication and Amelioration

Abstract

The small buds of the garden need care, nourishment and protection for growing as beautiful flowers likewise the children of the country need care, rights, protection and love for proper growth and development so that they can become healthy, productive and responsible citizens. Unfortunately some children have to work hard beyond their capacity for their survival and ultimately their development gets stuck and these children are known as child labourers. The present study “An Exploratory Research on Child Labour Eradication & Amelioration” was conducted with an objective to collect views of people from different professions regarding the most appropriate way to tackle the problem of child labour in India. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents (82%) were in the favour of betterment of the working environment of the child labourers and the rest (18%) were came up with the idea of complete scraping of child labour from our country. The ways of amelioration suggested by the respondents were; fixed working hours, fixed wages, fixed working schedule (before and after schooling), medical and entertainment facilities etc. The study suggests that government should introduce some laws and regulations related to child labour amelioration because eradication is not possible at once as well as government, citizens and policy makers should pay attention on the age of children to be considered as restricted age for selling labour.