• Shurabhi Ghosh

This study considers the child labour among every state of India prevents the growth of child development. The reality of child labour is very complex and diversified, because it exists in every place in India. Child labour is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity. In the Present scenario the numbers of child working population are increasing day by day in the developing and under developed countries. The child working populations are called as child labour whose age ranged from 5 to 14 years. In India, the children are engaged mostly in various low-key jobs of the unorganized sectors which are hazardous in situation. The Census found an increase in the number of child labourers from 11 million in 1991 to 12 million in 2001 and 21 million in 2011. In addition, nearly 85 per cent of child labourers in India are hard-to-reach, invisible and excluded, as they work largely in the unorganised sector, both rural and urban, within the family or in household-based units. This paper is an attempt to understand the causes of increasing child workers in Golaghat District of Assam as well as the present condition of child labour and provide suggestions about to reduce of child worker.

Child labour, hazardous jobs, Trafficking, Child labour Act.

"A Study on Child Labour in Golaghat Town, Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.950-957, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W82.pdf

"A Study on Child Labour in Golaghat Town, Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp950-957, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W82.pdf