Child labor: a prevalent menace in the glass industry
Student name: Ms Nikita Arora
Guide: Dr Sushmita Chatterjee
Year of completion: 2012
Host Organisation: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Dr Arup Mitra
Abstract: The topic of the child labor has been explored for years. Various
studies have tried to pin point the causes of the incidence of the
child labor in the Indian context. This study reviews the impact of
the mother‘s education and develops a framework for such an
analysis. Mother's education now appears as a very important
factor in curbing these incidences; supporting earlier findings that
women's empowerment (one important indicator of which would
be female educational level) is indeed instrumental in increasing
parental awareness. The study develops the impact of the policy
initiatives taken by the Government to curb this problem. Also, it
has review of the current status of the number and condition of the
child laborers in the Firozabad district, Uttar Pradesh which is
regarded as the hub of child laborers in the Glass Industry.
