Child Labour in Road Side Dhabas in Punjab

Children constitute the county's valuable human resources. The future well being of the nation depends on how its children grow and develop. So it is the duty of the society to look after every child with a view to assuring full development of its personality. In India large number of children is working as child labourers due to various socio-economic factors. Poverty, illiteracy, big family size, ignorance of people is the root cause for the prevalence of child labour. Though there is a plethora of laws dealing with problem of child labour due to their faulty implementation by the law enforcement agencies child labour practice is far from eradication.

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M.A. (Economia), M.Phil., Ph.D. Investigador no Departamento de Economia, Universidade de Punjabi, Patiala (Punjab) 147002

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Children constitute the county's valuable human resources. The future well being of the nation depends on how its children grow and develop. So it is the duty of the society to look after every child with a view to assuring full development of its personality. In India large number of children is working as child labourers due to various socio-economic factors. Poverty, illiteracy, big family size, ignorance of people is the root cause for the prevalence of child labour. Though there is a plethora of laws dealing with problem of child labour due to their faulty implementation by the law enforcement agencies child labour practice is far from eradication.