DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR

INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR SECOND INDIA COUNTRY REPORT
 

ARTICLE 4, 42 AND 44 [GENERAL MEASURES OF IMPLEMENTATION]

1. Are any initiatives taken in co-operation with the civil society (for e.g., professional group's non-governmental organisations) and any mechanisms developed to evaluate progress achieved?
 

CHILDREN IN SITUATIONS OF EXPLOITATION, INCLUDING PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND SOCIAL REINTEGRATION


ARTICLE 32 (ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN, INCLUDING CHILD LABOUR)

2. Indicate the measures (of a legislative, administrative, social and educational nature), taken to recognise and ensure the right of the child to be protected from:
  • Economic exploitation;
  • Performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical mental, spiritual, moral or social development.

3. Indicate information on:
  • Whether legislation that have included a prohibition, as well as a definition, of hazardous and harmful work and/or of the activities considered to be hazardous, harmful to the child’s health or development or to interfere with the child’s education;
  • Any preventive and remedial action undertaken, including information and awareness campaigns, as well as education, in particular compulsory education, and vocational training programmes, to address the situation of child labour both in the formal and informal sector, including as domestic servants, in agriculture or within private family activities;
  • Measures adopted to ensure respect for the general principles to the maximum extent possible

4. Indicate the measures adopted in pursuant to article 32, paragraph 2, and having regard to the relevant provisions or other international instruments, including measures at the legislative and administrative levels, to provide in particular for:
  • A minimum age or minimum ages for admission to employment;
  • Appropriate regulation of the hours and conditions of employment;
  • Appropriate penalties or other sanctions to ensure the effective enforcement of this article and any mechanism of inspection and system of complaint procedures available to the child, either directly or through a representative.

5. Provide information on the international conventions and other relevant instruments to which the state may be a party, including in the framework or the International Labour Organisation, as well as on:
  • Any national policy and multidisciplinary strategy developed to prevent and combat situations of children’s economic exploitation and labour;
  • Any co-ordinating policy and monitoring mechanism established for that purpose;
  • The relevant indicators identified and used;
  • Relevant programmes of technical co-operation and international assistance developed;
  • The progress achieved in the implementation of this article, benchmarks set up as well as difficulties encountered;
  • Relevant disaggregated data on the children concerned, including by age, gender, region, rural/urban area and social and ethnic origin, as well as on infringements observed by inspectors and sanctions applied.

6. Is the Child Labour Act, 1986 amended in order to expand the coverage to informal sector, household enterprises, and Government schools and training centres? Are the Factories Act & Beedi Act amended?

7. Are the legal procedures of state made child friendly? What steps are taken for enforcement of minimum age standards?

8. What steps are taken to establish and oversee child labour vigilance committees and employ sufficient number of labour inspectors in states and district?

9. What are the measures undertaken to do a national study on the nature and extent of child labour, compiling disaggregated data and evaluating progress? What efforts are made to sensitize general public about work hazards?

10. How is the functioning of state and various UN committees relevant CRC being coordinated? What are the plans for ratifying ILO Convention no. 38 and 182?

11. What are the measures take to address social inequalities through review and re-orientation policies including increased budgetary provision for programme targeting the most vulnerable groups?

12. Are the Child labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986, Bonded Labour (System abolition) Act, 1976 and the Employment of Manual Scavengers Act, 1993 fully implemented?

13. Provide an update On the International Programme on the Elimination on Child Labour (IPEC) launched in cooperation with ILO.

14. Provide an update of the proposal under consideration of enactment of a Central Legislation for fixing up minimum age of children for employment and to make Central and State Governments responsible for enforcement of law through a system of labour inspection.
 

QUANTITATIVE  DATABASE
Name of the State/UT:

Name of the Department:

Population of Children in your State/UT:
Male:
Female:
Total:
 

ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN, INCLUDING CHILD LABOUR [Art.32]

1. Provide details on child labour in your State or UTs?
 

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000
Total Number of Child Labourers      
Number of Child Labourers (Males)      
Number of Child Labourers (Females)      

2. How many cases of child labour were bought to the court in the last five years?

3. How many resulted in the sanction of employer:
 

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000

Cases of Child Labour brought to Court

      

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