Compulsory primary education for tackling the problem of child labour

This reader maintains, and has written to this effect in the Bulletin and elsewhere, on a number of occasions, that non-implementation of the programme of universal primary education and not putting this social welfare programme first on the list of priorities has rendered India vulnerable in all fields; and child labour can not be eliminated unless the child in sent to his/her rightful place - the school. Today, except Kerala, the picture is grim all over. In UP, for example, one third of the male children and more than three-fifths of female children are illiterate. It is the same in respect of school attendance for India. India is not only behind China, Sri Lanka and South Korea, but also behind 'low-income countries' (as defined by the World Bank) including sub-Saharan Africa.
It is against this background that one has to view the perpetual abuse of children, mostly from the deprived section of our......

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Title: Eradication Of Child Labour
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