In this era of globalization, few issues facing developing country like India one of them attract the same amount of popular attention as child labour. It is abstruse problem basically rooted in poverty. Working children are denied their right to survival and development, education, leisure and play, and adequate standard of living, opportunity for developing personality, talents, mental and physical abilities, and protection from abuse and neglect. The increase in the enrolment of children in elementary schools and increase in literacy rates since 1980s, Child labour continues to be a significant phenomenon in India. The world's largest democracy has a most tough legal framework in place, with the express commitment to ending child labour etched in its constitution. And yet it appears that India has the highest incidence of child labour in the world. The elimination of child labour is a priority and is being implemented at the grass roots level in India. A large number of non-governmental and voluntary organizations are involved in this process along with national and international organisations. This paper focuses on the child labour situation in India and analyses the effect of globalization on child labour by citing examples and case studies.
Child Labour, Globalization, Poverty
