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Child Labor

Laws in

Bangladesh

To Inform My Audience About Child

Labor Laws in Bangladesh

Children are engaged in diverse forms of economic activities

in the developing countries. In Bangladesh, of the 22.8

million work places that have been surveyed in 1995-96,

21.2 percent reported to have had employed children

between the ages of 5-14 years.

Child labor is work that exceeds a minimum number

of hours, depending on the age of a child and on the

type of work. Such work is considered harmful to

the child and should therefore be eliminated.

Violates a nation’s minimum age laws.

Threatens children’s physical, mental, or emotional

well-being.

Involves intolerable abuse, such as child slavery,

child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor, or

illicit activities.

Poverty and family size

Victims of migration

Illiteracy & ignorance

Child labor law and rights

Family breakdown

Natural calamities

Type of labors Sample size

(in number)

Percentage

Rickshaw puller 17 21.25

Van puller 11 13.75

Rickshaw pusher 13 16.25

Construction labor 15 18.75

Welding labor 24 30.0

Total 80 100

Age (years) Number of

laborers

Percentage

10-12 10 12.5

12-14 31 38.75

14-16 17 21.25

16-18 22 27.5

Total 80 100

Daily income

(taka)

Number of

laborers

Percentage

20-40 19 23.75

40-60 47 58.75

60-80 8 10.0

80-100 6 7.50

Total 80 100

Educational status Number of

laborers

Percentage

Illiterate 13 6.25

Can sign at best 7 8.75

Primary level 56 70.0

Secondary level 4 5.0

Total 80 100

In Bangladesh:

64% of children can read and write.

7.9 million children (ages 5–17) work.

62% of all working children are employed in

agricultural

1.4 million children do hazardous work

While child labor is on a declining trend in other

South Asian countries–India and Pakistan and in the

world, it has been increasing in Bangladesh. This

increasing trend in the incidence of child labor

particularly focuses on the irrelevance..

Section 34: Prohibition of employment of children

and adolescent:

No child shall be employed or permitted to work in

any occupation or establishment.

No adolescent shall be employed or permitted to

work in any occupation.

He carries , while at work, a token giving a

reference to such certificate

Section 35: Prohibition of certain agreement in

respect of children:

Subject to the provisions of this chapter, no person, being

the parent or guardian of a child, shall make an agreement,

to allow the service of the child to be utilized in any

employment

Section 36: Disputes as to age:

If any question arises as to whether any person is a

child or an adolescent, the question shall, in the

absence of a certificate as to the age for inspector

for decision to a registered medical practitioner.

A certificate as to age of a person granted by a

registered medical practitioner as mentioned in sub-

section (1), shall be conclusive evidence as to age of

the person to whom it relates

Section 37: Certificate of fitness:

A registered medical practitioner shall, on the

application of any adolescent or his parent or

guardian or by the employer whether the concerned

adolescent is fit to work in any occupation or

establishment, examine such person and shall give

his decision as to his fitness:

Section 38: Power to require medical examination

Section 39: Restriction of employment of adolescent in certain work

Section 40: Employment of adolescent on dangerous machines

Section 41: Working hours for adolescentSection 42: Prohibition of employment of

adolescent in underground and under-water work

Section 43: Notice of periods of work for adolescent

Ways of curbing child labor is a challenging and

worthy task and require financial, moral and

political support from all the tiers of the society. In

truth, child labor can’t be virtually removed from a

country such as Bangladesh just now because the

problem of child labor is indissolubly rooted in our

society, so attempts have to be made in the first

place to decrease it.

For the effective solutions of the above mentioned

problems, school education has to be free; school

feeding. Program me to be initiated; school utensils

such as pencils, rulers, textbooks to be offered;

arrangement for transportation to be made and for

these a large portion of the budget to be provided. In

our country primary education is free up to class

five, school feeding services offered and textbooks

given without any cost, although the illegal sale of

books by school authorities is very common.

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