Table 1. Age of respondents 3.2. Family Structure Most of the children are coming from the background with divorced families (44%) (Figure 3). Figure 3. Family background of child labour Figure 1. Family income of child labour Figure 5. Addicted family members of child labour Figure 5a. Addiction in child labour Figure 4A. Availability of nutritional food for child labour Figure 4B. Availability of food per day for child labour Family addiction The food availability to children is vary depends on the economical conditions of the family. The 56% children having meals two times in a day, while 33% children have meals available for single time either in lunch or dinner in a day (Figure 4A and Figure 4B). Most of the family members are addicted to the alcohol or tobacco. The head of the family, father of the respondents were found addicted to alcohol or tobacco. The elder brother or sisters are also found addicted to the alcohol or tobacco (Figure 5, Figure 5a).The child labours are also found addicted to the smoking and alcohol. Table 2. Family environment of child labour The addiction of family members leads the children to work in early age. The psychological effect on child behaviour is an important aspect of the family relationship and child labour issue. We studies family environment of the respondent near about 21% families are found in tension (Table 2). The family relationships are in tension conditions. There are initial reasons we analyzed the first part of the child labour study. We observed that the family income, poverty and lack of money for food drive these children to work as labour. In second part of the study we have collected information about the work environment and work nature. We found that 79% of children in a heavy working environment (Figure 6). Figure 6. Working environment of child labour 3.8. Work Environment and Work Nature Figure 8a. Wages of child labour Figure 10. Frequency of child labour’s salary The salaries to these children are not very attractive. There are 31% children works on daily wages basis. While 31% children getting their salary weekly (Figure 10). Figure 9. Working hours of child labour Figure 8. Working shift of child labour In their work shifts, we found that 18% children were working in night shifts and 40% children were working in both shifts (Figure 8). The children are working too hard for their families and for food only. The 52% study population was working for 9-12 hrs/day. The 37% population was working in 12 hrs shift (Figure 8 & Figure 9). Figure 12. Health problems in child labour The salary for a day is 50 INR for younger children of age group 11 to 14 years. The child labours are also complaining about their health. The employers are not supporting the health related issues. The regular medical aids are not available at workplace of these children (Figure 11). The employer is not taking care of the children worker. The 37% child labour are infected by various pathogens and 39.80% child labour are became minor handicapped during working hours (Figure 12). Figure 14. Mode of education Figure 13. Educational status of child labour Our study found that 20% (Figure 13) child labour is literate or going irregularly to school. Among literate child labours prefer to the night schools (15%) and government schools (4%) (Figure 14). These huge populations (80%) of child labour are illiterate. Most of the children want to go school but due to their family structure and the responsibilities on them, they cannot go to the school. These children were very enthusiastic about our research and discussed the problems of workplace and their families.
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