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Govt slow in enforcing child labour law, reveals RTI-Chetan Chauhan

As the government moves to ban employment of child below 18 years in hazardous industries, new data puts the government in a poor light over enforcement of existing provisions. As per the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, employment of children below the age of 14 in hazardous industries is banned. It includes employing them in roadside eateries and as domestic helps.   The ministry of labour in a reply...

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Centre committed to protecting welfare of children, says Kharge

-The Hindu “Elimination of child labour is an article of faith to us” The Centre is committed to protecting the welfare of children, Union Minister for Labour and Employment Mallikarjun Kharge said here on Sunday. “Elimination of child labour is an article of faith and commitment to us,” he asserted. He was happy to point out that there had been a sharp decline in the number of children in the age group of...

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Abortion as a feminist issue: Who decides and what?-Nivedita Menon

There is a complicated relationship between abortion as such and the selective abortion of female foetuses. This dilemma is one with which the women’s movement in India has been grappling since the late 1980s. In my discussion of this dilemma, I would like to move away completely from Satyamev Jayate, the television programme, (on which a discussion has been initiated by Shohini Ghosh on kafila.org). In any case, there the...

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Employing children below 14 to be an offence-Chetan Chauhan

Raising the bar on child labour, the government is set to debar employment of children below the age of 14 in any industry. Only those between 14 to 18 years can be employed except in hazardous industries. The existing Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, allows employment of children of up to 14 years of age in the industries not considered to be hazardous. Hazardous industries include tobacco, stone crushing,...

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Sexual harassment bill hits cabinet wall

-PTI Amendments to a bill meant to check sexual harassment of women in the workplace failed to get the Union cabinet’s nod today as several ministers frowned on certain provisions. Sources said the Sexual Harassment of women in the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redress) Bill was referred to a group of ministers headed by Union home minister P. Chidambaram. Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and woman and child development minister Krishna...

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