Post on 05-Jul-2018
CHILD LABOUR IN UTTAR PRADESH
Labour Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh
Situation Analysis (Census 2011)
2% of the total working
children in the World are
from Uttar Pradesh
More than 21% of working
children in the country are from
Uttar Pradesh
10.1 million working children below the age of 14 in India, the share of
U.P is 2.17 million
The work participation rates of
children in the 5-9 age group is 3%
3% of the total workers in the State are children below the age of 14
The work participation rates of
children in the 10-14 age group, is
6%
Source – International Labour Organization year- dt. 8-6-2017
Globally, the number of Child Workers has declined by one
third between 2000 & 2012 as per ILO estimates.
In India , the number of Child Workers has declined by more than
20% in the 2011 census as compared to the 2001 census.
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14000000
16000000
1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
India- Child Labour in Census Years
In Uttar Pradesh there has been increase of 13% in the number
of Child Labourers in 2011 when compared to the 2001 census.
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1971 1981 1991 2001 2011
Uttar Pradesh- Child Labour in Census Years
Child Labour in Major States as Percentage of
total Child Labour in the Country
Boys66%
Girls34%
Rural77%
Urban23%
Cultivators23%
Agricultural Labourers
28%
HH Workers9%
Other Workers
40%
Illiterate
37%
Literate63%
Main Child Workers by Literacy
Efforts by State Government
• State Action Plan for Elimination of Child labour
• Quarterly Special drives for identification, Rescue and
Rehabilitation of Child Labour in coordination with AHTU, Child
Line and Civil society organizations
• Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme for Child labour from Child
headed families
• “Naya Savera”- An initiative for Child Labour Free Villages in
selected Child labour prone districts
• Sarvodaya:- Initiative by district Gonda
• State and district level monitoring mechanism
• Awareness and communication campaign.
• Corpus fund of Rs. 10 Lakhs in each district for immediate relief in
case of child bonded labour
• 46 districts covered under National Child Labour Project.
State Action Plan
(Launched on 11th June 2016)
Data Source: Census 2011
Data Analysis with technical support of IIT Kanpur
Level of analysis
I. District
II. Sub-Division
III. Village/Ward
Target group: 0-14 years old, occupied in main occupation
Cluster size: more than 20 child labour.
Note- Villages and Ward Level data of the Working Children
available with the State.
State Action Plan
INCLUDES
• Evidence based planning- Intervention based on Survey
results, high risk districts taken on priority basis.
• Analysis and Identification of child labour clusters- On
the basis of census data high risk clusters (Villages & Wards)
are indentified with in the high risk districts.
• Planning for Division/District/Sub division/town and
Village/ward.
• Roles and responsibilities of the all the stakeholder
departments.
State Action Plan
All the interventions under the action plan will be carried in three phases
with in the period of 5 Years(till 2021).
First Phase to cover villages/ wards with 50 main child workers in top 20 High risk Districts.
Second Phase
To cover villages /ward more then 20 main child workers in top 20 High risk Districts.
Third Phase To cover all remaining child labour prone clusters.
Time lines
Progress So far-
1 961 villages of 20 districts identified as a high risk cluster
2 For these Cluster Naya Savera program has been launched to
declare the child labour free Districts.
3 Survey Under going in these villages.
4 Block level committees found in all the blocks of these villages.
5 Regular community based meeting being organized.
6 Field visit by Senior Officers.
7 Regular monitoring by District Magistrate.
Quarterly Special drives for identification, Rescue
and Rehabilitation of Child Labour
Detail Government orders from Chief secretary
Quarterly special drive under overall supervision of District
Magistrate (for 15 days)
Special teams constituted and headed by notified inspectors
(Sub-divisional Magistrates, Tahsildar and Nayab Tahsildars
, Block Development officers posted in blocks, Basic Siksha
adhikari, Assistant Basic Shiksha Adhikari)
Daily reporting of identification and rescue of Child labour on
Targets for Districts and Enforcement officers
03 Categories of District
A Working children more than 60000 (Main + Marginal)
B Working children more than 25000 -59999(Main + Marginal)
C Working children more than 10000-24999 (Main + Marginal)
Year Total
Inspection
Total Identification/
Rescue
Prosecution
Launched
2015-16 918 1164 206
2016-17 1304 1601 409
2017-18
(up to Aug 2018)
1698 2216 394
Total 3920 4981 1009
Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme for Child
labour from Child headed families
• Financial assistance of Rs. 9200/- per year to the families of
the child who is working as a child labour due to
death, disability or chronic disease of the either parent.
• 34 districts of 08 regions covered under the Scheme.
• Revision and enhancement of benefits and relaxation of
conditionalties of the scheme is proposed as per finding of the
recent evaluation.
Note- Support required from Ministry of Labour and Employment, GoI to
cover maximum number of district under this scheme.
Naya Savera
An initiative with the technical support of UNICEF for Child
Labour Free Villages in selected Child labour prone districts-
Launched on 12th June 2017 Anti Child Labour day
916 Villages of top Child Labour prone 20 Districts.
735 Villages of 126 Blocks in 14 Districts in first phase
Objective:- To ensure enrollment and retention of the working
children identified in the selected Child labour prone
Villages.
Target for 2017-18:- 125 Villages to be declared Child
Labour Free Villages.
Progress so far……..
Block level committees constituted which includes:-
BDO, Gram pradhans, School Head master, Gram panchayat
secretary, members of School management committee and
representative of NGOs and Survey agencies
Nodal officer from labour department designated for monitoring
and implementation of the project.
Technical resource person and survey agencies working in all the
14 districts
Survey and identification process completed in more than 100
villages.
Regular meetings with SMC and community members
Visits by labour department officers
Naya Savera Launch…..
Sarvodaya
An initiative by district administration of Gonda.
Identified and rescued children being adopted by Senior
Government officers includes DM, SSP and CDO ,ADM.
Children enrolled in the school of their choice.
All the educational expenses and other requirement are now taken
care by these officer.
Till date 13 rescued child labour being adopted.
Their progress is regularly monitored.
Experience being shared with other districts.
Sarvodaya Video-
State and District Level Monitoring Mechanism
• State Level
Core committee under Chairmanship of Chief Secretary.
Monitoring and advisory committee under the chairmanship of
Additional Chief Secretary.
Child Labour elimination and Rehabilitation society under
chairmanship of Labour commissioner.
• District Level
Janpadiye Bal Shram Unmoolan Samiti under Chairmanship of
District Magistrate.
Task force under Chairmanship of CDO.
Immediate Relief
A Corpus of Rs.10 Lakhs by State Government in each districtto provide immediate relief to Child Bonded Labour.
46 district covered under NCLP District.
23 Districts of the state received budget for survey from GoI.
Currently Survey completed in 15 district as per the state actionplan.
Survey in remaining 8 district is going on.
Special Training Centers (STC) operational in 5 Districts.
Training centers opening in Hot spots villages and wards onpriority basis.
National Child Labour Project
Awareness and Communication Campaign
• Communication material developed with support of
UNICEF, includes Story books, Flip cards, Posters, Hoardings and
Wall painting design, Display Panels , Audios , TV and radio spots.
• Rath Yatras with Street plays in Child prone districts
• 10 Districts covering 600 villages of 35 tehsil in year 2015-16.
• 10 Districts covering 580 villages in 30 tehsil in year 2016-17.
• Addressing more then 2 lakhs audience.
• Regional and District level workshops and training of field level
officers and other Stake holders.
Note- State Government has requested MOLE GOI an amount of Rupees 57.58 Lakhs for implementation of above communication campaign in Child Labour
prone 20 district.
IEC CAMPAIGNS
UNDERTAKEN
FOR
ELIMINATION OF
CHILD LABOUR
Village Level CHAUPAL & PAD-
YATRA in one of the Naya
Savera Village.
MATERIAL
FOR
A COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNICATION /
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
ILLUSTRATED STORIES
ILLUSTRATION CARDS
FLIPBOOKS
BOOKLETS
POSTERS
HOARDINGS
/ WALL PAINTINGS
ANIMATION STORIES AUDIO VISUAL
RADIO SPOTS
THANKS….