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Missing, a Strong Legal Framework to Combat Child Labor
By IANS
Submitted: 7/1/2008
New Delhi, India (June 12, 2008)
The numbers tell the sorry story - an estimated 60 million child labourers in India but only 670,000 violations of the law detected in eight years and just 22,588 convictions! Behind the bland government numbers are the millions of young children working in roadside eateries, slaving away in glass factories, hunched up over carpet looms or sweeping and cooking in homes in blatant violation of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act.
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