Child Labour Prohibition Regulation Act-1986

     Children are the future of country, for prosperity, it is mandatory that every child get education, so that they become assets for their nation. In develop countries, of Globe, basic right are protected of their citizens by law, it includes free education up to middle level, plus they are entitle for the monetary assistance from government, but developing and poor countries of the world are lack of such advantages, equivalents to develop countries, thus children often skip to go school because of poverty or financial reasons, opt to become helping hands in their family income.
     India has also problem of child labour, because lot of states area’s, are under poverty & backwardness, without proper guidance and knowledge of advantage’s of education, around them, often leads kids to skip from education, but later on when they grown up and unable to stands in society, as a responsible citizen, it hurts them and they repents of not getting education. It is obligatory for all countries to set a minimum age for employment according to the rules of ILO written in Convention 138(C.138). The stipulated age for employment should not be below the age for finishing compulsory schooling, that is not below the age of 15. Developing countries are allowed to set the minimum age at 14 years in accordance with their socio- economic circumstances.C-138 has also made provisions for flexibility for certain countries, setting the minimum age of 12 and 13 for their children - but only for partaking in light work. Light work can be defined as children’s participation in only those economic activities which do not damage their health and development or interfere with their education
     To avoid children, do work, at very tender age, Government of India has made Child labour Prohibition Regulation Act-1986, in which children under the age of 14, are not allowed to work in any industry, Restaurants, Home & dangerous places to work by kids –

• Transport of passengers
• Manufacture and selling of crackers and fireworks
• Abattoirs
• Carpet weaving 
• Manufacture of Beedi, cement, matches, explosives, soap, slate pencils, agate products, agarbatti etc.
• Building and construction industry
• Hazardous processes under the factory act
• Brick kilns etc

and anybody who found guilty of violating this act, then any person, police officer or labour inspector can file complaint in court, and there is provision in the act that court can fine 20,000 rupees or two years of jail, but despite these terms, owner prefer to hire kids as employees in place of adult, as they believe children are reliable, dedicated and hard working, along with it they will also get less money compare to grown employees, plus they never bargain, but using childhood in work, employers not only snatch golden era of child, which is suppose to make foundation for his/her whole life but also become source of irresponsible & illiterate future of country which by no mean good for country.
     So, it is the moral duty of every citizen of country to add their support in the construction of good, responsible and educated future of country instead of helpless, depress & pathetic citizen of future.