What is the solution you propose to end child labour?
The best solution is to provide primary education and make it compulsory. By forcing children to go to school, you keep them out of factories and workshops. Also, the suggestion that there can be schools and part-time jobs does not work, because almost all the children are employed in the unorganised sector and it is impossible to monitor them to ensure that part-time labour is part-time and does not become full-time. This is the best and most workable solution. Then, we must identify child-labour-prone areas and develop comprehensive programmes to eliminate the problems. For instance, there is a clear linkage between the lack of land reforms and high child labour incidences, whereas where land reforms have taken place, child labour is virtually absent. Very often, middle-class people are also guilty of employing small children, usually as household helps and babysitters. You are right. In fact, it was the abuses inflicted on children who work as house servants that made us protest aga
