*Ph. D. Research Student, Department of Economics, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. waghmaresidharth138@gmail.com
**Professor, Department of Economics, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. ssnarwade22@gmail.com
***Ph. D. Research Student, Centre for Studies and Research in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India. vikaswaghmarecug@gmail.com
Online published on 12 May, 2017.
The paper mainly deals with the contribution of child labours in various informal sectors such as agrarian, industrial and service sectors in India. This paper attempts to examine the causes of child Labour and their present condition in the informal sectors. Now a day, the numbers of child laborers are increasing day by day in the developing and under developed countries. But this study emphasizes or concentrates on informal sectors of India. Actually the child working populations is called as child labour whose age ranged from 5 to 14 years. In India, the children are engaged mostly in various low-key jobs of the unorganized sectors which are hazardous in the situation. According to census, the number of child labourer from 11.28 million in 1991 to 12.66 million in 2001 and 43.53 lakh in 2011. In addition, nearly 85 per cent of child labourers in India are hard-to-reach, invisible and excluded, as they work largely in the unorganized sectors, both rural and urban, within the family or in household-based units.
Child labour, distribution, hazardous jobs, status, informal sector and Child labour Act
