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

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

Posted at 02 Jun 2021 in Current Affairs, Governance, GS Paper II, Social Issues, Social Justice by
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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
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