Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;
National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;
53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;
Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;
Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4679826,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot; title=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot; title=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot; title=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;
National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;
53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;
Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;
Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4679826,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 31751
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot; title=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot; title=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot; title=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum <br /><br />Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.<br /><br />RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&nbsp; &ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&rdquo;<br /><br />The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.<br /><br />There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.<br /><br />The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br /><br />Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.<br /><br />Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.<br /><br />`Family&rsquo; has been defined as child&rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.<br /><br />Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.<br /><br /><br />Ambarish Rai<br />National Convenor<br />RTE Forum<br />53, Sangha Rachna,<br />Lodhi Estate,<br />New Delhi-110003<br />Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660<br />Fax: 011-24616061<br /><br />Website,<a href=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/" title=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/">http://www.rteforumindia.org/</a><br /><br />Stay connected on Facebook,<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India" title="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India">http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India</a><br />Stay connected on Twitter,<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india" title="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india">https://twitter.com/rteforum_india</a></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;
National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;
53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;
Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;
Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4679826,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot; title=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot; title=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot; title=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;
National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;
53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;
Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;
Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4679826,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 31751
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot; title=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot; title=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot; title=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum <br /><br />Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.<br /><br />RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&nbsp; &ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&rdquo;<br /><br />The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.<br /><br />There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.<br /><br />The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br /><br />Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.<br /><br />Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.<br /><br />`Family&rsquo; has been defined as child&rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.<br /><br />Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.<br /><br /><br />Ambarish Rai<br />National Convenor<br />RTE Forum<br />53, Sangha Rachna,<br />Lodhi Estate,<br />New Delhi-110003<br />Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660<br />Fax: 011-24616061<br /><br />Website,<a href=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/" title=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/">http://www.rteforumindia.org/</a><br /><br />Stay connected on Facebook,<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India" title="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India">http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India</a><br />Stay connected on Twitter,<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india" title="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india">https://twitter.com/rteforum_india</a></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67d2d976e449e-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;
National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;
53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;
Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;
Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4679826,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot; title=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot; title=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot; title=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 31751,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;
National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;
RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;
53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;
Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;
New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;
Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 4679826,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 31751
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&amp;rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&amp;nbsp; &amp;ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;`Family&amp;rsquo; has been defined as child&amp;rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&amp;rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&amp;rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &amp;ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&amp;rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambarish Rai&lt;br /&gt;National Convenor&lt;br /&gt;RTE Forum&lt;br /&gt;53, Sangha Rachna,&lt;br /&gt;Lodhi Estate,&lt;br /&gt;New Delhi-110003&lt;br /&gt;Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660&lt;br /&gt;Fax: 011-24616061&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website,&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot; title=&quot; http://www.rteforumindia.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.rteforumindia.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Facebook,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot; title=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay connected on Twitter,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot; title=&quot;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&quot;&gt;https://twitter.com/rteforum_india&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum <br /><br />Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.<br /><br />RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&nbsp; &ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&rdquo;<br /><br />The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.<br /><br />There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.<br /><br />The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br /><br />Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.<br /><br />Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.<br /><br />`Family&rsquo; has been defined as child&rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.<br /><br />Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.<br /><br /><br />Ambarish Rai<br />National Convenor<br />RTE Forum<br />53, Sangha Rachna,<br />Lodhi Estate,<br />New Delhi-110003<br />Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660<br />Fax: 011-24616061<br /><br />Website,<a href=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/" title=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/">http://www.rteforumindia.org/</a><br /><br />Stay connected on Facebook,<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India" title="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India">http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India</a><br />Stay connected on Twitter,<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india" title="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india">https://twitter.com/rteforum_india</a></div>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 31751,
		'title' => 'RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div align="justify">
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum <br />
<br />
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.<br />
<br />
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&nbsp; &ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&rdquo;<br />
<br />
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.<br />
<br />
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.<br />
<br />
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br />
<br />
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.<br />
<br />
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.<br />
<br />
`Family&rsquo; has been defined as child&rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.<br />
<br />
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.<br />
<br />
<br />
Ambarish Rai<br />
National Convenor<br />
RTE Forum<br />
53, Sangha Rachna,<br />
Lodhi Estate,<br />
New Delhi-110003<br />
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660<br />
Fax: 011-24616061<br />
<br />
Website,<a href=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/"><br />
http://www.rteforumindia.org/</a><br />
<br />
Stay connected on Facebook,<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India">http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India<br />
</a><br />
Stay connected on Twitter,<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india">https://twitter.com/rteforum_india</a>
</div>',
		'credit_writer' => 'RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 4679826,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 31751,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights',
	'metaDesc' => '
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...',
	'disp' => '<div align="justify">-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum <br /><br />Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.<br /><br />RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&nbsp; &ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&rdquo;<br /><br />The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.<br /><br />There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.<br /><br />The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br /><br />Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.<br /><br />Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.<br /><br />`Family&rsquo; has been defined as child&rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.<br /><br />Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.<br /><br /><br />Ambarish Rai<br />National Convenor<br />RTE Forum<br />53, Sangha Rachna,<br />Lodhi Estate,<br />New Delhi-110003<br />Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660<br />Fax: 011-24616061<br /><br />Website,<a href=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/" title=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/">http://www.rteforumindia.org/</a><br /><br />Stay connected on Facebook,<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India" title="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India">http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India</a><br />Stay connected on Twitter,<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india" title="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india">https://twitter.com/rteforum_india</a></div>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 31751,
	'title' => 'RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div align="justify">
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum <br />
<br />
Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.<br />
<br />
RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&nbsp; &ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&rdquo;<br />
<br />
The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.<br />
<br />
There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.<br />
<br />
The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br />
<br />
Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.<br />
<br />
Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.<br />
<br />
`Family&rsquo; has been defined as child&rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.<br />
<br />
Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.<br />
<br />
<br />
Ambarish Rai<br />
National Convenor<br />
RTE Forum<br />
53, Sangha Rachna,<br />
Lodhi Estate,<br />
New Delhi-110003<br />
Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660<br />
Fax: 011-24616061<br />
<br />
Website,<a href=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/"><br />
http://www.rteforumindia.org/</a><br />
<br />
Stay connected on Facebook,<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India">http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India<br />
</a><br />
Stay connected on Twitter,<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india">https://twitter.com/rteforum_india</a>
</div>',
	'credit_writer' => 'RTE Forum, 26 July, 2016,',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'rte-forum-condemns-child-labour-prohibition-and-regulation-amendment-bill-2012-passed-by-the-lok-sabha-4679826',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 4679826,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 31751
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha'
$metaKeywords = 'Right to Education,RTE,Lok Sabha,Child Labour,Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill (2012),Child Rights'
$metaDesc = '
-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum 

Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.

RTE Forum, a...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum <br /><br />Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move.<br /><br />RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people&rsquo;s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that&nbsp; &ldquo;Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.&rdquo;<br /><br />The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour.<br /><br />There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill.<br /><br />The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.<br /><br />Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level.<br /><br />Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment.<br /><br />`Family&rsquo; has been defined as child&rsquo;s mother, father, brother, sister and father&rsquo;s sister and brother and mother&rsquo;s sister and brother; `Family enterprise&rsquo; has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative.<br /><br />Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying &ldquo;we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own&rdquo;. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies.<br /><br /><br />Ambarish Rai<br />National Convenor<br />RTE Forum<br />53, Sangha Rachna,<br />Lodhi Estate,<br />New Delhi-110003<br />Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660<br />Fax: 011-24616061<br /><br />Website,<a href=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/" title=" http://www.rteforumindia.org/">http://www.rteforumindia.org/</a><br /><br />Stay connected on Facebook,<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India" title="http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India">http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India</a><br />Stay connected on Twitter,<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india" title="https://twitter.com/rteforum_india">https://twitter.com/rteforum_india</a></div>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

RTE Forum condemns Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 passed by the Lok Sabha

-Press Statement from Right to Education Forum Lok Sabha has passed today Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 and allowed work for children below the age of 14 years in family enterprises is a regressive move. RTE Forum, a coalition of ten thousand grass-root organizations, people’s movement, educationists and teachers organizations, has said that  “Today is black day for the millions of Indian children; they will now be deprived from all their rights which they have achieved after the decades long struggles, like, right to education, equal opportunity for quality learning, play, protection and enjoyment of their childhood.” The Labour Ministry and the Government have completely negated the voice of Child Rights Activists of this country and also the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour. There are 1,01,28,663 child labourers in the country between the age group of 5 to 14 years as per 2011 census. The amended Bill might give a first impression that the Government is taking a stringent measure to end child labour upto 14 years. But a closer look at this reveals that it is hardly the case. Of course there are some relevant measures in the new bill such as a jail term of up to 2 years for those employing children below the age of 14 for labour activities. Activists who have been fighting for rights of children have been critical of the bill. The Government has made an exemption that the child can help his family or family enterprise after his school hours or during vacations. The government has made the amendments on the hypothesis that education and work for children can go hand in hand but this defeats the very purpose of protecting the children from exploitation and also the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act. Ambarish Rai National Convener of RTE Forum has expressed his deep concerns about the insensitive approach of ruling party towards children of this country and said that this is a clear violation of existing Fundamental right to Education (Article 21A). RTE Act, which is guaranteeing right to education up to 14 years, is now planning to move as a legal entitlement towards secondary education. This amendment will affect the retention rate of children in schools and increase drop outs of marginalized especially girl children. Goal 4 of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) declared by United Nations is also pushing for the universalization of education till the secondary level. Mr. Rai said that employers and contractors will be benefited by this amendment and children are now forced to be exploited through this amendment. `Family’ has been defined as child’s mother, father, brother, sister and father’s sister and brother and mother’s sister and brother; `Family enterprise’ has been defined as any work, profession, manufacture or business which is performed by the members of the family with the engagement of other persons. This means a child can work in any manufacturing or business unit if it is owned by his / her relative. Several Parliamentarians have also criticized the bill saying “we should not do to other children what we do not do to our own”. Some of the members in the opposition have said strongly that none of them would like their children to do labour, family business or not, apart from studies. Ambarish Rai National Convenor RTE Forum 53, Sangha Rachna, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 Ph: 011-24611700, 24618660 Fax: 011-24616061 Website,http://www.rteforumindia.org/ Stay connected on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/Right.to.Education.India Stay connected on Twitter, https://twitter.com/rteforum_india