Child labour in agriculture / by Surendra singh and Raj Bahadur Singh Verma
- Lucknow Print House 1987
- 241 p.
(Children have been participating in different types of work from time immemorial. The work that they used to perform earlier provided them cons tructive work experience and did not exert any harmful effects on them.) Children's participation in work is not bad per se. But with rapid advance ments in science and technology lead ing to emergence of new types of work as also the novel methods of performing them, the work that children are forced to undertake because of the exigencies of situations does not provide them any useful work experience and exerts varied kind of deleterious effects on their personality development.
The present book is based on analysis of data collected by interview 500 child workers and their parents/guardians.
The problem of child labour can be tackled by removing poverty by effectively implementing the various development programmes and thereby ensuring the fulfilment of basic needs and by providing free education with all its attendant requirements in pro perly run schools.