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No Child Labour

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     Child Labour is referred to those children who have not completed their fourteen years of age but have been working in factories, offices, shops or in any commercial establishment illegally. So, the minimum legal age of employment in India is 14 years.

     According to THE CHILD LABOUR (PROHIBITION AND REGULATION) ACT, 1986" ;


Hours and period of work – 


No child shall be required or permitted to work in any establishment in excess of such number of hours as may be prescribed for such establishment or class of establishments

No child shall be permitted or required to work between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m

No child shall be permitted or required to work overtime.

No child shall be permitted or required to work in any establishment on any day on

which he has already been working in another establishment.

Weekly holidays – 

Every child employed in an establishment shall be allowed in each week, a holiday or one whole day, which day shall be specified by the occupier in a notice permanently exhibited in a conspicuous place in the establishment and the day so specified shall not be altered by the occupier more than once in three months.

Maintenance of register – 

There shall be a register maintained by every occupier in respect of children employed or permitted to work in any establishment, a register to be available for inspection by an Inspector at all times during working hours or when work is being carried on in any such establishment showing –

1.  the name and date of birth of every child so employed or permitted to work;
2.  hours and periods of work of any such child and the intervals of rest to which he is entitled;
3.  the nature of work of any such child; and
4. such other particulars as may be prescribed

No child can be employed in any of the following –

Any occupation concerned with: -

(1)     Transport of passengers, goods or mails by railways;

(2)         Cinder picking, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in the railway premises;

(3)         Work in a catering establishment at a railway station, involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment from the one platform to another or in to or out of a moving train;

(4)         Work relating to the construction of a railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines;

(5)         A port authority within the limits of any port;

(6)    Work relating to selling of crackers and fireworks in shops with temporary licenses;

(7)    Abattoirs/Slaughter House;

(8)    Automobile workshops and garages;

(9)         Foundries;

(10)   Handling of toxic or inflammable substances or explosives;

(11)   Handloom and power loom industry;

(12)   Mines (underground and under water) and collieries;

(13)   Plastic units and fiberglass workshops;

PART  B 

Processes

(1)         Beedi-making.

(2)         Carpet-weaving.

(3)         Cement manufacture, including bagging of cement.

(4)         Cloth printing, dyeing and weaving.

(5)         Manufacture of matches, explosives and fire-works.

(6)         Mica-cutting and splitting.

(7)         Shellac manufacture.

(8)         Soap manufacture.

(9)         Tanning.

(10)   Wool-cleaning.

(11)   Building and construction industry.

   (12)     Manufacture of slate pencils (including packing).

   (13)     Manufacture of products from agate.

(14)   Manufacturing processes using toxic metals and substances such as lead, mercury, manganese, chromium, cadmium, benzene, pesticides and asbestos.

(15)   “Hazardous processes”.

(16)   Printing as defined in Section 2(k) (iv) of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)

            (17)   Cashew and cashewnut descaling and processing.

               (18) Soldering processes in electronic industries.

               (19) ‘Aggarbatti’ manufacturing.

(20) Automobile repairs and maintenance including processes incidental thereto namely, welding, lathe work, dent beating and painting.

(21) Brick kilns and Roof tiles units.

(22) Cotton ginning and processing and production of hosiery goods.

(23) Detergent manufacturing.

(24) Fabrication workshops (ferrous and non ferrous)

(25) Gem cutting and polishing.

(26) Handling of chromite and manganese ores.

(27) Jute textile manufacture and coir making.

(28) Lime Kilns and Manufacture of Lime.

(29) Lock Making.

(30) Manufacturing processes having exposure to lead such as primary and secondary smelting, welding and cutting of lead-painted metal constructions, welding of galvanized orzinc silicate, polyvinyl chloride, mixing (by hand) of crystal glass mass, sanding or scraping of lead paint, burning of lead in enameling workshops, lead mining, plumbing, cable making, wiring patenting, lead casting, type founding in printing shops.  Store type setting, assembling of cars, shot making and lead glass blowing.

(31) Manufacture of cement pipes, cement products and other related work.

(32) Manufacture of glass, glass ware including bangles, florescent tubes, bulbs and other similar glass products.

(33) Manufacture of dyes and dye stuff.

(34) Manufacturing or handling of pesticides and insecticides.

(35) Manufacturing or processing and handling of corrosive and toxic substances, metal cleaning and photo engraving and soldering processes in electronic industry.

(36) Manufacturing of burning coal and coal briquettes.

(37) Manufacturing of sports goods involving exposure to synthetic materials, chemicals and leather.

(38) Moulding and processing of fiberglass and plastic.

(39) Oil expelling and refinery.

(40) Paper making.

(41) Potteries and ceramic industry.

(42) Polishing, moulding, cutting, welding and manufacturing of brass goods in all forms.

(43) Processes in agriculture where tractors, threshing and harvesting machines are used and chaff cutting.

(44) Saw mill – all processes.

(45) Sericulture processing.

(46) Skinning, dyeing and processes for manufacturing of leather and leather products.

(47) Stone breaking and stone crushing.

(48) Tobacco processing including manufacturing of tobacco, tobacco paste and handling of  tobacco in any form.

(49) Tyre making, repairing, re-treading and graphite benefication.

(50) Utensils making, polishing and metal buffing.

(51) ‘Zari’ making (all processes)’.

      (52) Electroplating;

(53)  Graphite powdering and incidental processing;

(54)  Grinding or glazing of metals;

(55)  Diamond cutting and polishing;

(56)  Extraction of slate from mines;

(57)  Rag picking and scavenging.

Information taken from Ministry of Labour website. 

For more information one may refer the same.

India marked its presence in Space once again by placing 3 satellites.

     India once again marked its presence in Space by launching 3 new satellites on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully  placed 3 satellites in space with the help of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket from its Sriharikota Space Centre. The three satellites are ;

1. Resource-Sat 2,
2. Youth-Sat, &
3. X-Sat.

     The Resource-Sat 2 has powerful cameras and will gather data on natural resources. Resource-Sat 2 will replace its previous version Resource-Sat 1, which was launched in 2003. Resource-Sat 2 is expected to work for next 5 years.

     The Youth-Sat is an Indo-Russian joint effort built with the participation of students of the two sides. It will gather data on changes in solar & upper atmospheric layers.

    The X-Sat is Singapore's first locally made satellite built by Nanyan Technological University, Singapore. X-Sat is expected to remain in space for next 3 years and will sent data on environmental changes.