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Child Labour in India. Disentangling Essence and Solution
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In the drive for universal education all children not in school have been subsumed as working children as mentioned in this paper, a development that is ill-advised and only aggravates the problem.Abstract:
In the drive for universal education all children not in school have been subsumed as working children. Such a development is ill-advised. This article analyses this changing definition in the context of the Labour Commission Report 2001. With a redefinition of child labour, the number of working children is set at more than, 10 times the official figures available from Census and NSS reports. Such a development only aggravates the problem.read more
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