Poverty, debt burden major reasons for child labour
Aarti Dhar Audit says 1,210 children slogging as labourers in 8 zones Nearly 50 per cent of the child labour in the country is in to employment due to poverty and debt burden of their families, says a social audit on child labour. Problems such as alcoholism, domestic violence, financial bankruptcy, sudden deaths or crippling of parents and desertions were the reasons for children to quit education and take up work, the audit by World Vision India said.