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Point out the main causes of ‘child labour’ in India. How far the State policies have succeeded in its elimination?

  • UPSC 2020
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Child labour in India is not a residue of backwardness awaiting growth; it is produced by a particular arrangement of poverty, caste, cheap-labour demand and weak schooling. Census 2011 recorded 10.1 million working children aged 5–14. State policy has cut that number but has not approached elimination, and one of its own laws works against…

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  • Causes: the household under risk
  • Causes: why employers want children
  • Causes: caste and gender
  • How far has state policy succeeded? — partially
  • Conclusion

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