Will child labour problem be ever solved?
Social workers and reformers in northern India are worried about child labour in this region. The term child labour originated at the time of industrial revolution when it was coined to denote employment of young children in the factories. Later, it construed employment of minors in any field which hampered their education or adversely affected their health. Not only in India, but throughout the world in all cultures and in all times children have been helping their parents in the fields, in the marketplace and at home. No stigma was attached to such labour nor was it considered a social problem till the introduction of the factory system. In our region, working children can be divided into two categories. In the first category are those children who help their parents on family looms or are engaged in family business. The second category includes those who are employed by a third person, and they drudge along with adults, albeit at a lower remuneration. Such children work on roads, in
