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Do you think that law has been able to abolish child labour in India? Comment.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

India has legislated against child labour for over a century, and the numbers have fallen: Census 2011 counted 10.1 million working children aged 5–14, some 2.6 million fewer than in 2001. But law has compressed and concealed child labour rather than abolished it — and one of its own provisions now shelters the commonest form…

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  • Where law has worked
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  • Why law alone was never sufficient
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