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    Children are the future of any society, but child labor prevents children from properly developing physically, intellectually, and socially. While India has enacted laws against child labor, the problem persists, though the number of child laborers has declined significantly from over 21 million in 1983 to just over 9 million in 2004-2005. According to the 2001 Census, there were still over 12.6 million economically active children aged 5-14. Many work in hazardous occupations, with over 1.2 million engaged in particularly dangerous jobs like mining, construction, and manufacturing.

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    Children are the future of any society, but child labor prevents children from properly developing physically, intellectually, and socially. While India has enacted laws against child labor, the problem persists, though the number of child laborers has declined significantly from over 21 million in 1983 to just over 9 million in 2004-2005. According to the 2001 Census, there were still over 12.6 million economically active children aged 5-14. Many work in hazardous occupations, with over 1.2 million engaged in particularly dangerous jobs like mining, construction, and manufacturing.

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    Children are the future of any society, but child labor prevents children from properly developing physically, intellectually, and socially. While India has enacted laws against child labor, the problem persists, though the number of child laborers has declined significantly from over 21 million in 1983 to just over 9 million in 2004-2005. According to the 2001 Census, there were still over 12.6 million economically active children aged 5-14. Many work in hazardous occupations, with over 1.2 million engaged in particularly dangerous jobs like mining, construction, and manufacturing.

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    Introduction on Child Labor

    Children are the greatest gift to humanity and Childhood is an important and impressionable stage of
    human development as it holds the potential to the future development of any society. Children who
    are in an environment, which is conducive to their intellectual, physical and social health; grow up to be
    responsible and productive members of society. Every nation links its future with the present status of
    its children. By performing work when they are too young for the task, children unduly reduce their
    present welfare or their future income earning capabilities, either by shrinking their future external
    choice sets or by reducing their own future individual productive capabilities.

    India has all along followed a proactive policy in addressing the problem of child labor and has always
    stood for constitutional, statutory and developmental measures that are required to eliminate child
    labor. The Constitution of India has relevant provisions to secure compulsory universal primary
    education. Labor Commissions and Committees have gone into the problems of child labor and made
    extensive recommendations. India’s judiciary, right up to the apex level, has demonstrated profoundly
    empathetic responses against the practice of child labor. Despite several proactive legislations, policies
    and judicial prouncements, the problem of child labor persists as a challenge to the country.

    Magnitude of Child Labor

    The magnitude of child labor in India has been witnessing enormous decline in the last two decades,
    both in terms of magnitude and workforce participation rates. Evidence drawn from the National
    Sample Survey data suggest that India’s child workforce during 2004-05 was estimated at little over nine
    million (9.07 million) as against twenty-one and half million (21.55 million) in 1983. During this period,
    the number of child employment has declined sharply by 12.48 million. There is considerable fall in child
    workforce is observed among boys than girls. The corresponding fall in boys and girls workforce during
    1983 to 2004-05 observes a significant decrease from 12.06 to 4.76 million, and 9.49 to 4.31 million,
    respectively. In effect, the gender difference that existed between boys and girls (adverse against boys)
    during the early 1980s has almost dissipated in recent years, the difference being slowed down from
    2.57 million to roughly 0.45 million. However, in absolute numbers, the problem is large. As per the
    Census 2001, there are 1.26 crores economically active children in the age group of 5-14 years. It was
    1.13 crores in the 1991 Census. The number of working children in the major child labor endemic states
    as per the 1991 and 2001 Census given below:

    Types of Child Occupations

    The occupation wise data of children in this age group of 5-14 working in the non-agricultural sector is
    classified. Though these occupations in the Census data do not match with the occupations listed as
    hazardous under the Child Labor (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, a tentative segregation of data into
    hazardous & non-hazardous occupations gives a broad estimation of children working in different
    occupations. As per this data, 36.43 lakh children in the age group of 5-14 years are working in non-
    agricultural sector in the country, out of which 12.19 lakh children are working in hazardous
    occupations. Their distribution in some major hazardous occupations given below:

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