1. CHILD LABOUR A young child working for fourteen hours a day is what is termed as child labour.

2. A Picture is worth a thousand words

3. Some Sweet Ones

4. Some Bitter Ones 73 million working children are less than 10 years old.

7. CHILD LABOUR MARKET

10. Causes of Child Labour

11. OVER POPULATION

13. ILLITERACY

15. POVERTY

18. Consequences For Children..

20. Physical injuries and mutilations are caused by badly maintained machinery on farms and in factories, machete accidents in plantations, and any number of hazards encountered in industries such as mining, ceramics and fireworks manufacture

21. Growth deficiency is prevalent among working children, who tend to be shorter and lighter than other children; these deficiencies also impact on their adult life

22. Long-term health problems , such as respiratory disease, asbestosis and a variety of cancers, are common in countries where children are forced to work with dangerous chemicals

24. prohibition of children being employed in hazardous occupations and processes.

25. Transport of passengers, goods; or mails by railway

26. Cinder picking, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in the railway premise.

28. Initiatives towards Elimination of Child Labour

29. The government has made efforts to prohibit child labor by enacting Child labor laws in India including the 1986 Child Labor

31. THE CHILD LABOUR (Prohibition and Regulation) ACT, 1986

34. CHILD LABOUR The Silent Killer…