• Mr. Devaraja R
• Dr. Shivappa R

Children are the wealth of tomorrow. A child is unique individual; he or she is not miniature adult, not a little man or woman. The childhood period is vital because of socialization process by the transmission of attitude, custom, and behaviour through the influence of the family and community, children are vulnerable to disease, death, and disability owing to their age, sex, place of living, social economic status and a host of other variables. They need appropriate care for survival and healthy development. This particular paper attempts to study the health hazards of those selected child labours in Chamarajanagar District of Karnataka. For this purpose, the researcher chose 240 sample from four taluks in the district of Chamarajanagar based on Multi-stage Random sampling technique. The sectors that have been considered for the study are Agriculture and Allied, Petty Shops/Small Enterprises/Establishments and Hotels. The study results revealed that 88.3 % of the child labourers are not given any protective measures at the work place and the child labour jobs are not risky with regard to the sectors of incidence of Agriculture, Hotels and Petty shops and small business establishments. In addition, the child labourers of the study area have faced the problem of leave facility and over timing. The also showed that Chamarajanagar (95 %), Kollegal (100%), Gundlupet (76.7 %) and Yelandur (95%) of the respondents opined that they don’t have any intentions to change the present job and willing to continue in the same state of work

Child Labour, Health Hazards, Chi-Square Test, Chamarajanagar District

"ANALYSIS OF HEALTH HAZARDS OF THE SELECTED CHILD LABOURSIN CHAMARAJANAGAR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.666-684, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812B84.pdf

"ANALYSIS OF HEALTH HAZARDS OF THE SELECTED CHILD LABOURSIN CHAMARAJANAGAR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp666-684, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812B84.pdf