AN ANALYTICAL STUDY RELATING TO THE ISSUES AND CONCERNS ON CHILD LABOUR IN INDIAN BUSINESS SECTOR

Children play a very vital role in nation building. It is quite necessary and desirable to protect and promote various safe guards to protect the children. It is an incontrovertible fact that there are various social evils with children. One of them is children labour. The child labour system is in existence in developing and underdeveloped countries. India is one of the countries where in large number of children below the age of 14 years are working under various organisations. It is a fact that if there is no proper distribution of work among the members of the society, then children will be automatically forced to do work for their survival. Unemployment of adult members of the particular family results into child labour. The law in Indian soil says that any child below age of 14 cannot be employed either in a factory or office or restaurant and India's international business has been severely affected in many cases because child labours, violating human rights, have been used in some stage or the other in manufacturing, packaging a transport of those items. There is a large number of cases of export of ready-made garments, prawn and several other items from India has been rejected on grounds of child labour being used. child labour is frequently utilized in India in various places of production and service e.g., small scale industry, restaurant service, domestic aid, shopkeeper's assistant, stone breaking, book binding, in fact in every house-hold industry.