Transcription of CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA
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CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA
The term CHILD LABOUR 1 is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development. It refers to work that: - is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and/or - interferes with a CHILD s ability to attend and participate in school fully by obliging them to leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work. There are many inter-linked factors contributing to the prevalence of CHILD LABOUR . CHILD LABOUR is both a cause and consequence of poverty.
2001 5.9 2.1 5.0 11.4 1.3 12.7 2011 4.3 2.9 3.9 8.1 2.0 10.1 *Source – Census 2001 and 2011 Distribution of working children by type of work in 2011 Area of work Percentage Numbers (in millions) Cultivators 26.0 2.63 Agricultural labourers 32.9 3.33 Household industry workers 5.2 0.52 Other workers 35.8 3.62
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