Child labour and their health status: A study in hotel industry

Child labour damage children's health, threaten their education and lead to further exploitation and abuse, in which they are enslaved, forcibly recruited, prostituted, trafficked, forced into illegal activities or exposed to hazards. Due to certain factors and forces children are compelled to work in the early stages of their childhood, which does harm to the child and society, because age plays a dominant role in shaping personality, values, responsibility, and participation in different walks of life. Children in poor families who are ailing with poverty perceive their children as an income generating resource to supplement the family income. Though the Indian government committed to the protection and promotion of the well-being of children through its acts and policies, but enforcement of them is a problem. Keeping in view the present study is taken up to determine the activities of Chid labour in hotel industry in Tirupathi town, Andhra Pradesh. The results are based on interviews of 160boys who are in the age of 6–14 years. The findings reveal that most of them belong to poor families and low social strata had no other alternative but to working as child laborers.