| Year |
2013 |
| Volume/Issue/Review Month |
Vol. - VI | Issue I | January |
| Title |
Small hands in Big Deeds: A Study on Girl Child Worker in Odisha |
| Authors |
S.K.Shadangi |
| Broad area |
Small hands in Big Deeds: A Study on Girl Child Worker in Odisha |
| Abstract |
Exploitation of girl child labour is the result of the prevailing tradition-bound
society like ours, where girl child labour is both a consequence and a cause of
poverty. It is unfortunate enough that the Labour Laws that deal with children
are concerned with the organized sectors only, whereas the unorganized sectors
remain totally uncovered by the legislation. In India, the major concentration
of girl child labour is in unorganized sectors where they are exploitedsocially,
economically and sexually. The expropriation of child labour endangers
child’s both mental and physical development. Strict legal actions should
be initiated to change the prevailing socio-economic system so as to eradicate
the problems of child labour, which is a severe violation of basic human rights
and a threat to global economic and social growth. |
| Description |
A child in is an important living component of the human society. Children are like mirrors of the society. They are the future custodians of the sovereignty of the nation. They are the potential embodiment of the ideals, aspirations and ambitions of the |
| File |
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| Referenceses |
- Article 23-Prohibition of traffic in human beings and forced
- labour.
- Article 24- Prohibition of employment of children in
- factories
- Article 39(e)- that the health and strength of workers,
- men and women, and the tender age of children
- are not abused and that citizens are not forced
- by the economic necessity to enter avocations
- unsuited to their age and strength.
- 56 Srusti Management Review, Vol -VI, Issue - I, Jan.-2013
- Article 39(f)- That Children are given opportunities, and
- facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in
- conditions of freedom and dignity and that
- childhood and youth are protected against
- exploitation and against moral and material
- abandonment.
- Article 42- Provision for just and humane conditions of
- work and maternity relief
- Article 45-Provision for free and compulsory education
- for children.
- Dr. Praffula Chandra Das, labour Directorate, Orissa,
- “Child Labour in Orissa” its problems and
- prospects (Seminar Paper) pp-5-6
- Indian Annual Register, 1943, Vol. II, pp-19-20
- S.C. Bhola, ‘British Economic Policy in Orissa’ Discovery
- publishing House, New House, p-147
- S.N Tripahty (1991) Features of Child Labour in Orissa.
- Exploitation of Child Labour in Tribal India,
- Publishing House, p-27
- Working Group on Department of Children for the eleventh
- Five Year Plan (2007-2012)- A Report p-8
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