Child Labor among the Tribal’s : A Study in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

Children are the most precious human resource and hold the potential of future development of the nation. If children are deprived of their childhood, the social progress and economic development of the country would be adversely affected. Child labor is the global issue which is more common in the underdeveloped countries. Poor parents or parents under the poverty line are unable to afford the education expenses of their kids and they own unable to earn enough money for the family survival. Children are the new flowers with powerful fragrance of any nation, however, some people are declining the power and destroying the future of the country just for earning small money by illegally involving the growing kids. They are playing with the moral of the innocent people and their kids. Protecting children from the child labor is the responsibility of each and every citizen living in the country. Child labor is the socio-economic issue which is coming from long ago and now need to be solved on an ultimate basis. In a brief, the definition of Child Labour is any work within or outside of the family that threatens the health and mental development of the child by denying her or him fundamental as well as non-fundamental rights. The Child Labour is a work which involves some degree of exploitation i.e. physical, mental, economic and social which impairs the health and development of children.