Child Labor in India

It should not be tolerated when it comes to using them with human suffering. The history of compulsory child labor can be traced back to the beginning of the industrial revolution, industrialization has brought mass production, spread all over the world, affected one of the biggest countries like India. India is a country with millions of children from 5 to 17 years old who are forced to do our main job in agriculture, housework, and factory.

India currently has many crises that will affect it. These include important and tragic problems of child labor. There are approximately 60 to 115 million child laborers in India (Human Rights Watch, 1996). Most child laborers work in agriculture, but most human rights groups focus on city bonded business workers. Secured child labor refers to "phenomena in which children work under slavery to pay debts" (Human Rights Watch, 1996). In secured child labor, creditors lend a small amount of money to their parents in exchange for child labor. The labor force is very cheap and children can repay in a lump when working. It hardly happened because the interest rate is higher than the salary of the child.

There are various kinds of child labor, but slave labor or slave labor is one of the worst types of work for children. It is estimated that about 10 million slave children in India are engaged in domestic work. In addition, there are about 55 million bonded child laborers working in several other industries. According to a recent report by the International Labor Organization (ILO), in India, about 80% of child laborers are employed in the agricultural sector. Generally, these children are sold to wealthy money lenders and can not return borrowed money to them. "Street children" is another type of child labor where children work on the street and sell flowers and other work. Children may not eat food for a long time, so people regret for them and give them. Statistics on child labor can not be accurate as it is not considered in some areas.