Child Labour

Bachpan Bachao Andolan

[Today’s Child is Tomorrow’s Citizen]

10/1/2010

* INTRODUCTION

* OBJECTIVES

* CHILD LABOR IN INDIA

* RECENT CASES ON CHILD LABOR

* ARTICLES/ NEWS

* BACKGROUND

* CHILD LABOR

* BACHPAN BACHAO ANDOLAN (NGO)

* ABOUT BBA

* VARIOUS CAMPAIGNS

* 3 ASPECTS OF BBA

* Toy manufacturing unit case

* Zari industry case

* Mica mine case

1. To understand the social problem child labor.

2. To highlight the contribution of Bachpan Bachao Andolan towards Children .

3. To highlight three main aspects of Bachpan Bachao Andolan for Child Labour:-

1. Protection

2. Prevention

3. Rehabilitation

4. To study main cases on child labour:-

1. Toy manufacturing unit case

2. Zari industry case

3. Mica mine case

5. To analyze the information obtained from a field study of mukti ashram.

Child labor is one of the more harrowing aspects of 19th century history and undoubtedly an emotive topic. To get employment reform acts passed as legislation, reformers highlighted stories of the horrific treatment of children in mills and down the mines.

SIGNIFICANCE

In the last decade, child labour has become a serious problem worldwide. The spread of this problem in the developing countries, rather than the developed countries, could be referred to the fact that most of studies and reports correlate child labour, poverty and socioeconomic status of the family. In

Socio-cultural and socioeconomic variables have a strong effect on the prevalence of the child labour, in which the poor socioeconomic status and the need for survival, forced families to expose their children to the hazardous working conditions.

The effect of child labour on the psychological and mental status of working children is evident in the results of many studies worldwide, this effect appears in many behavioral and emotional changes, and some of these behaviors are the reaction...