Volume : 6, Issue : 11, November - 2017

Child Labour Problems in Karnataka

V. B. Balaraddy, G. S. Venumadhava

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">The socio-economic conditions play a significant role in giving rise to the problem of child labour. Child labour perpetuates poverty, it does not reduce it as it condemns one generation after another to its vicious circle.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">It is generally considered that illiteracy, ignorance, low wages, poverty, unemployment, and social life &ndash; all are the root cause of child labour.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Present paper concentrates on the Economic compulsions weigh heavily on the consciousness of the poor parents and they did not mind colluding with their children&rsquo;s employers in violating the law and putting their children under the risk of inhuman exploitation. This paper refers the Karnataka state and The Gulbarga District is facing many problems like over population, mounting poverty, increasing unemployment, underdevelopment and object backwardness.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Child labour is also one of them.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:&#10;inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>