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Condemning the Innocent.


  • The Child Labor (prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986

    Due to poverty and other reasons, child labor is still prevalent in India. Although its total eradication is desirable and must be achieved, the government tried to prohibit it in certain industries and regulate in others, by enacting a law.
Objectives of Child Labor:

  • Ban the employment of children, those who have not completed their fourteenth year, in specified occupations and processes.
  • Lay down a procedure to decide modifications to the schedule of banned occupations or processes.
  • Regulate the conditions of work of children in employments where they are not prohibited from working.
  • Lay down enhanced penalties for employment of children in violation of the provisions of this Act and other acts which forbid the employment of children.
  • To obtain uniformity in the definition of child in the related laws.

Important Provisions of the Act: (prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986

  • According to the definition given in the Act, a child means a person who has not completed his fourteenth year of age.
  • No child is permitted to work in any of the following occupations:
  • Transport of passengers, goods or mails by railways.
  • Cinder packing, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in the railway premises.
  • Work in catering establishment at a railway station.
  • Work relating to the construction of a railway station.
  • Work under a port authority within the limits of any port.
  • Work relating to selling of crackers and fireworks in shops with temporary licenses.
  • Work in abattoirs/slaughter house.
  • Carpet weaving.
  • Tanning
  • Wool cleaning.

 

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