CHILD LABOUR: CAUSES AND PROTECTIVE LEGISLATIVE MECHANISM IN INDIA

From the 18^th of century, legislation of India has tried to protect and regulate child labour in various industries and plantations. The first and foremost concern of the legislation was to regulate working hours for children, to prescribe the lowest age limit for working of children, to ensure the life,  health  of  the  child  workers,  and to  prevent  the  working  of  children  in hazardous work.  Child Labour legislations are preventing the working of children below the age of 14 years and 15 years in industries, factories, plantation, and occupations. In absence of provisions to resolve the problem and due to lack of political will, the number  of  child  labour  in  total  labour  force  of  the  Nation  is  keeping  on increasinsg.