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According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates, 246 million children are child labourers and "One out of six children in the world today is involved in child labour, doing work that is damaging to his or her mental, physical and emotional development". 73 million children are less than 10 years of age. The number of working children in the world between the ages of 5 and 14 years is at least 120 million. India with a population of more than 1 billion in 2001 A.D. has the largest population of these working children in the World. This paper recognizes that child labour connection with human deprivation- illiteracy, food insecurity, distress displacements, gender inequity and social and human under-development. There are varying estimates of working children magnitude in India due to differing concepts and methods of estimation. The 1991 Census of India has estimated 11.20 million working children, while the 2001 Census has estimated 12.59 million working children. The present paper shows the status of Child labour as a whole and also in Lucknow City.