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Child Labour : Sectoral Distribution, Effects and Solutions
Rupesh Kumar ·
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A child chasing goats or cows, cutting grass or a very young girl washingutensils, carrying a pot of water, precariously balancing it on her head orcleaning her house while minding her younger brother in a cradle, areuncommon images in rural India. Not so visible are the thousands of childrenrolling beedis, working in glass factories or engaged in carpet weaving, matchmaking, agriculture etc. Similarly, the shoeshine boy or the little child serving acup of tea or sweeping the floor with a soggy dark piece of cloth in a hotel or adhaba and the risking number of street children may be the visible forms ofworking children in urban townships or along highways. But there areinnumerable invisible young girls and boys performing domestic chores,helping their parents employed in an urban on rural home.Child labour inancient India was existed in the form of slaves and in medieval India rulersencouraged it with intention to make traffic in child slaves. In India, it is mainlyassociated with the industrialization, from British rule