Breaking the cycle of child labour is in India’s hands (The Hindu, GS-2, Social Justice)

02 Jun Breaking the cycle of child labour is in India’s hands (The Hindu, GS-2, Social Justice)

Context:- Lockdown completely or partially rendered parents jobless, people hopeless and children scholless. This further exacerbated the inequalities and child labor.

Facts:-

• world enters the third decade of the 21st century, 152 million children around the world are still in child labour
• 95% of the children in the age group of 6­13 years are attending educational institutions (formal and informal).
• UNESCO estimates based on the 2011 Census record 38.1 million children as “out of school”

Consequences:-

• Long­term and devastating consequences for their education, their skills acquisition.
• Long­term and devastating consequences for their education, their skills acquisition.
• less than half of children in the age group of 10­-14 years have completed primary education. 

child labour in India decreased in the decade 2001 to 2011

• Reasons:-

• • • (MGNREGA) 2005, 
    • the Right to Education Act 2009 and 
    • the Mid Day Meal Scheme
    • guaranteed wage employment (unskilled) are some of government interventions
    • Ratifying International Labour Organization Conventions Nos. 138 and 182 in 2017,
    • share information and coordinate on child labour cases 
    • Pencil portal

• Challenges in education

• • • Digital divide
    • Lack of digital infra
    • Children drop out

• Solution

• • Community driven advances
  • All stake holder approach
  • Comprehensive and strategic partnership

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Swarn Singh

Plutus IAS Current Affair Team Member