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Do you agree that the issue of child labour raises questions about and beyond the informal sector? Give reasons.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Yes. Child labour is overwhelmingly an informal-sector phenomenon — over 92 per cent of Indian workers lie outside labour regulation — but locating it there explains only where children work, not why a society permits it. The issue also puts childhood, the family, caste and the school on trial.

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