Child Labour Rampant But Case Registration Negligible In State

Rise in child labourers is being attributed to poverty, unemployment

- Diana Sahu @Bhubaneswar

Odisha continues to be one of the states where registration of child labour cases has remained abysmally low since 2018.

The state has had the highest number of violations of Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, and the lowest prosecution and conviction for employing children below 14 years of age.

While it is not rare to find a child employed in a household, a tea shop, a construction site or a brick kiln, poor reporting, prosecution and conviction have remained major hindrances in fighting the social malice.