India’s new child-labor bill is a cause for celebration for the bosses, not children and human-rights advocates. Ragpicker children rest at a yard on the outskirts of Jammu, India.

The number of child labourers aged 14 or below in India dropped to 4.5 million in 2011 from 12.6 million a decade before, said India's labour minister, urging lawmakers to approve planned changes ...

at that rate it will take almost 200 years for India to eradicate child labor. It calls for better implementation of education policies, including better schooling for migrant children ...

New Delhi — When India's government imposed a strict lockdown in March to try to curb coronavirus infections, Sagheer Shah, a tailor in the small town of Faizabad, had to close his shop.

In 2016, the Indian government set a target of rescuing 18 million workers from bondage by 2030, increased the amount of cash aid for survivors more than tenfold, and laid out specific provisions ...

Child labour, caste-based discrimination and poverty are closely inter-linked in India, according to a ... including its causes and consequences, said that deep-rooted intersecting forms of ...

Goal to make UP child labour-free by 2027; child labourers to be identified through inter-departmental coordination ...

NEW DELHI: A parliamentary standing committee on labour, textiles and skill development in its 52nd report on ‘National Policy on Child Labourers’ has said that it was “practically not ...