Introduction

In under developed and developing countries, a social problem, child labour has a great magnitude compare to other problems with the development of human beings. The children of today will be the citizen of tomorrow on who’s the development and growth of country depends completely. From the support of society, family and state, the children can grow with adequate skills and knowledge that are necessary for the growth and development of child as well as the nation. In developed and developing countries, government have shown the concern for the needs and vulnerabilities of children and young people (Gupta, 2015)

Depending upon the social, economic, environmental or physical postulates, the definition and concept of child labour varies in which the paid or unpaid children employs are engaged in an industries and business. According to International Labour Organization, “child labour is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development”.

Types of Child Labour

The child labour is categorized according to the sector in which child works. These are as follows:

1. Child Labour: In many sectors such as factories, workshops, establishment mines and domestic, the children work as a paid or unpaid employ. According to the ministry of labour, Government of India, Child Labour is defined as the hazardous work is done by the children. Those children who are not doing hazardous work are not come under child labour category, only said ‘child work’.

2. Street Labour: The street child are those who live on and off the street and work as shoeshine boys, rag-pickers, newspaper vendors, baggars etc. In child labour, most of the children have some sort of house, they go to home in evening or at night. While street children do not have any home to live. They survive on the pavements, in the bus station and railway stations.

3. Bonded Labour: Some children are pledged by their parents for the money or inherited debts of their fathers. These children cannot escape, if they are brought by carpet owner.

4. Working children: Those children who works as a family labour in agriculture or home based work. These children are similar

to those children who work for other employers if they work 12-14 hours per day with their parents at the cost of their education. This categories is very large in which children work full time. The percentage of girl is very high who works at the cost of education.

5. Sexual exploitation of children: From the social and economic background, the sexual appetites of men are completed by girls and boys. There are numerous link between the commercial sexual exploitation of children and other forms of exploitative child labor. Abusive activities by the employers either as perpetrators or intermediaries cannot be stopped by the children as they are powerless.

6. Migrant Children: Many families are being forced to leave their homes due to which drop out of school take places. Migrated children are certainly used as a worker. These migrated labour are generally work in the industrial and agro- industrial sectors like brick-making, salt manufacture, sugar cane harvesting, stone quarrying, construction, fisheries, plantations, and rice mills.