Spectrum of child labour issues in India

Since 1980s, the civil society groups have been successful in mainstreaming the issue of child labour. There is little disagreement that a child¿s access to her basic rights of education and development will be limited if she is a child labourer. It follows that, under the child rights approach, inaction on the part of the state or the civil society groups to address the problem of child labour is analogous to passively accepting the denial of basic rights to children. Although child rights framework is now acknowledged by the Indian State, it is also evident that child labour is seen more as a symptom to other social problems like poverty and unemployment, than as a problem in itself.