Child Labour In Carpet Industry In India

India s handmade carpet industry has been exploiting people for decades with no repercussions for the brazen use of child labor to produce the country s number one export.

Child labour in carpet industry in india.

Carpets made in this region are routinely exported to the eu u s and beyond. During the past 20 years it has been one of the fastest growing industries and most of this growth has been achieved through the use of child labor. Fighting child labour in india s carpet industry. This organization is in place in india in order to oversee child labor and to provide at least an elementary education to the children of weaving families.

The sample survey of enterprises is supplemented with in depth case studies of employers exporters and u s. In brick kilns carpet weaving garment making domestic service food and refreshment. Despite rates of child labour declining over the last few years children are still being used in some severe forms of child labour such as bonded labour child soldiers and trafficking. Children working in the carpet industry of india.

The handmade woolen carpet industry is extremely labor intensive and one of the largest export earners for india pakistan nepal and morocco. Government ngos carpet industry and international agencies like the ilo unicef and undp to address this problem. This was a study of the prevalence of working children and child labor in the production process of the export oriented handmade carpet industry in india in 2009 2011. The study included wool processing.

Exploiting children in this way allows carpet producers to keep profits up and prices down. India s child labor problem. Child labour productivity clothing and textile industries. Based on a survey of 362 carpet weaving enterprises in india.

Prevalence and conditions. It is an industry initiative of the european carpet trade with one of its goals to break through the vicious poverty circle which particularly affects the carpet knotting countries of india. Under the child labour act of 1986 prohibition and regulation the indian government has prohibited employment of children in the carpet industry. Eradicating child labour is difficult but some employers in india are finding a way.

The act has recognized the industry as a hazardous process for employing. And along the way to eliminating child labour employers are also discovering that it makes good business sense as well.