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What actionable measures would you suggest to curb the recurrent child labour menace in India?

  • UPSC 2023
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

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The word that matters is recurrent. India rescues children in large numbers — 53,651 were taken out of child labour and trafficking in 2024-25 — yet the same households send the same children back. Measures must therefore attack the conditions of relapse, not the incident of work.

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  • 1. Close the legal loopholes that manufacture the problem
  • 2. Make schooling the binding constraint — the highest-return measure
  • 3. Repair household economics, because poverty is the demand
  • 4. Make enterprises and supply chains carry the cost
  • 5. Close the loop from rescue to rehabilitation
  • 6. Work on norms
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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