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CHILD LABOUR: CAUSES AND PROTECTIVE LEGISLATIVE MECHANISM IN INDIA
Sanjay J. Ambekar ·
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From the 18th of century, legislation of India has tried to protect and regulate child labour in various industries and plantations. The first and foremost concern of the legislation was to regulate working hours for children, to prescribe the lowest age limit for working of children, to ensure the life, health of the child workers, and to prevent the working of children in hazardous work. Child Labour legislations are preventing the working of children below the age of 14 years and 15 years in industries, factories, plantation, and occupations. In absence of provisions to resolve the problem and due to lack of political will, the number of child labour in total labour force of the Nation is keeping on increasinsg.