Child Labour in India

A national consultation on child labour was organised by Centre for Education and Communication and ActionAid at Constitution Club (Dy Chairman Hall), New Delhi, on 13 December 2012. The consultation discussed several issues related to the problems of definition and enumeration of child labour, child labour and informalisation, laws and policies pertaining to child rights and labour, migration and trafficking, the role of police in child labour prohibition, and the political economy of child labour. It ended with a set of policy recommendations and policy decisions on how the proposed changes to the Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act (CLPRA) should be worked out. While acknowledging that the move to amend CLPRA was in sync with Right to Education Act and the provisions of ILO Conventions 132 and 182, the participants expressed serious concerns about certain provisions that, in effect, would undermine the stated objectives.