Child Labour in Mizoram: A Case Study
India is the second largest populous country in the world and has a huge contingency of children i.e. approximately thirty-five million. It is a country having a numerous diversity of people. Most of the children engaged in labour used to work under some short of compulsions. Despite of constitutional and legal provisions for prohibition of labour by children under fourteen years of age, it continues to be a serious problem. CHILD LABOUR IN MIZORAM Mizoram got its statehood in 1986. The development in education sector happened quite late as compared to other states. The state does not have any major development in industrial sector because of difficult geographical location and lack of mineral resources. The major occupation of people is agriculture which is not that productive for which many people are there below poverty line. The children engaged in labour are low paid and suffer from various health problems. As per the 2001 and 2011 Census data, the state had 26,265 and 2793 chil...