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World Child Labor Prohibition Day
❖ World Child Labor Prohibition Day is celebrated every year on June 12 to end the cruelty of child labor all over the world.
❖ World Child Labor Prohibition Day was started by the International Organization in the year 2002.
❖ Its main objective is to focus attention on the global extent of child labor and to make necessary efforts to eliminate child labor completely.
❖ According to the report released by the International Labor Organization, out of 152 million children involved in child labor all over the world, 73 million children do hazardous work.
❖ Hazardous labor includes manual scavenging, construction, agriculture, mines, factories and working as hawkers and domestic help etc.
❖ According to statistics obtained by the United Nations, of the 541 million youth workers (15 to 24 years old), 37 million are children who do hazardous child labor.
❖ Child labor is the physical work of children, usually with or without payment of wages. Child labor is not limited to India only, it is a global abate.
❖ Poverty is usually the first reason why children do hard work according to their age.
❖ Apart from this, there are other reasons such as population explosion, cheap labor, non-implementation of available laws, parents reluctant to send children to school (they are willing to send their children to work instead of school, so that the family income can increase).
❖ In India, children have been considered as the form of God since time immemorial. But the present scenario is quite different from this thinking. The future of the children is becoming bleak. Poor children are working as laborers at the age of getting education in school.
❖ For the last few years, the initiative of the Government of India and the State Governments in this direction is commendable. Many schemes have been started by him for the upliftment of children, so that a positive impact can be seen on the lives of children and their education.
❖ In accordance with the constitutional scheme, the Constitution of India prohibits forced labor through various sections of the Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles of State Policy.
❖ Child labor in India is a subject on which both the federal and state governments can legislate.
❖ Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 – This law prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 years in any illegal occupation and 57 processes deemed to be injurious to the life and health of children. These professions and processes are mentioned in the Schedule to the Act.
❖ The significant judicial intervention in action against child labour in India came from a 1996 Supreme Court ruling that directed federal and state governments to identify, retrench, and provide quality education to children working in hazardous processes and occupations.
❖ The court had also ordered that a Child Labour Rehabilitation cum Welfare Fund be set up with utilisation of contributions from employers who violate child labour laws.