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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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

Whatsapp

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….