Abstract:
Child labor is a historical fact, it has definitely existed. It is believed in the society in some form or the other in every era that today's small child is an ideal and responsible citizen of the country tomorrow. The reins of the country are going to come into his hands. Therefore, small children should be considered as flowers of God's house and should be cultured and given complete development in the form of education. But in India there is more talk, the reality is something else. For centuries till today, the society has not treated children in such a way that will bring glory to our social traditions and the name of the country. Even today, there are lakhs of children aged between 6 to 14 years who do not even have two meals a day. The depth of this never-ending poverty is increasing, due to which children today are not able to go to school, whether they have the inner desire to get education or not. Their parents are forced to send their children to work in order to provide financial support to the family, while the children are supposed to play and study.
Today, the problem of child labor is being raised loudly at the national and international level and child labor is being opposed, but almost no one pays serious attention to what are the economic and social reasons for becoming child labor. . Most of the problem of child labor is in developing countries and among backward and Dalit castes. As far as India is concerned, child labor is mostly done by children of farmers in rural areas, landless coolies, labor class and the poor and destitute.
