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24 May 2015

Author:
Namrata Acharya, Business Standard

India: New child labour norms leave many dissatisfied

Not many anti-child labour activists are content with the Union government's recent changes to child labour laws...about 70 per cent of child labourers are in the farm sector. Now, there will be more incidences of child labour in this segment...In India, agriculture employs about 69.5 per cent of child labour (5-14 years), according to a 2013 report, Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, by the US labour department. "Children are engaged in the manufacturing of goods, many in the informal economy, and increasingly in home-based production," the report said. "We only partially welcome the new legislation. While the government accepted our pending demand to ban all forms of child labour below the age of 14, it will encourage child labour in farmlands," said Yogesh Dube, chairman of Bhartiya Vikas Sansthan and a former member of NCPCR. "Industries such as rice mills, bidi factories and coir making, to mention a few, will now see more child labourers.

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