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INDUS is a technical cooperation project jointly funded by the Government of India and the
Government of the United States of America. It was developed within the framework of the
Joint Statement on Enhanced Indo-US Cooperation on Elimination of Child Labour signed
between the two governments on 31 August 2000. The project is a collaborative effort to
provide programme support in a coordinated manner to ongoing efforts undertaken by the
Government of India, through the NCLPs, towards a progressively child labour free country.
The project focuses on selected districts within the states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and targets 80,000 children at risk of hazardous
employment in the following sectors: brick manufacturing, stone quarrying, bidi
manufacturing, footwear manufacturing, fireworks manufacturing, manufacturing of
matches, silk manufacturing, lock making, brassware and glassware production. The
selected states have some of the highest rates of child labour, as well as a high proportion
of children working in these sectors. The project also addresses the employment
generation and skills development needs of 10,000 parents.
The overall approach of the project is to create an enabling environment where children will
be motivated to enroll in schools, induced to refrain from working, and households provided
with income generation alternatives that will not make it necessary for them to send their
children to work. It seeks to work with two major programmes of the Government of India: the
NCLPs and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
The intervention strategy of the project consists of developing a comprehensive child labour
elimination model for India by integrating four components. These are:
1.Strengthening public education as a measure to prevent child labour;
2.Monitoring the impact of child labour elimination efforts by tracking each beneficiary on the
one hand and developing a child labour monitoring system on the other, to capture the shifts
in child labour across different sectors;
3.Providing income generating opportunities to the families of child Labour
Providing vocational skills training to adolescents in the age group of 14-17 years
In addition, it seeks to support various initiatives aimed at ending child Labour through social
mobilization and awareness raising. This is combined with the building of capacities and
training of government agencies and civil society partners.
The project seeks to develop this model by working in partnership with the NCLP scheme of
the Government of India. Several initiatives are being implemented to develop a model which
can be replicated in all the NCLP districts.
No Universally accepted definition.
Child & Childhood are defined differently in different culture.Children's abilities and
maturities varies so much that defining a child�s maturity by calendar age can be
misleading.
A Working child is defined as child in the rang of 5 to 15, who is doing labour either paid or
unpaid and working within or outside the family and basically is deprived of the right to
education and childhood.
Poverty
Absence of Education.
Lack of Awareness.
Non-acceptance of Family welfare measures.
Cultural Factors.
Social Indifference.
Lack of Political will.
Inadequate enforcement of legislation.
- Availability at low wage rate.
- Availed for long working hours.
- Efficient & keen workers.
- Can be controlled with a little threat
- Do No indulge in union formation.
- No legal Battles.
- Not Organized & Easier to exploit.
- Fetches good wages.
- Contributes family income.
- Strength not liability.
- Racial and Ethnic compulsion.
- Social Compulsion.
Compulsory & Free Primary Education.
Incentives to School going children.Vocational training as part of
educational curriculum
Alternative source of Family income.
Population Control.
Job guarantee proportionate to Education level.
Sensitive implementation of existing Laws.
Generating wide public awareness.
