• Vartika Pandey
• Dr B D Nayak

Child Labour is a big problem in India and there are10.1 million working children below the age of 14 in India, the share of U.P. is 2.17 million which is 21% of total working children (Census 2011).This study is an attempt to find the social effect of being Child labour in a population of school drop-outs at the elementary level in Central Uttar Pradesh. The study is based on the primary data collected from 500 school drop-outs and their households through a predesigned well-structured questionnaire. The objective of the study is to establish if there is a relation between high school drop-outs and prevalence of child labour and conduct a comparative study of the social behavior including psychological effects among working children and non-working children in the studied population of school dropouts. Out of 500 school drop-outs, 246 (49 %) worked as child labour. Pearson Correlation method is used to establish the relationship between high school dropout and the prevalence of child labour and a strong positive correlation is found among them. Out of the total surveyed drop-outs who suffered from anti-social impact in form of involvement in alcohol or drug abuse, criminal offense, stealing or suffering from mental or physical discomfort a visibly large number are working children. The findings of the study showed a higher incidence of anti-social involvement among child labour in the sample, suggesting child labour does have an adverse social impact on society and also on the individual

- School Drop-outs, Child Labour, Social impact, Uttar Pradesh, Correlation

"CHILD LABOUR AMONG SCHOOL DROP-OUTS AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT ON THE WORKING CHILD ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.147-151, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908B22.pdf

"CHILD LABOUR AMONG SCHOOL DROP-OUTS AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT ON THE WORKING CHILD ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp147-151, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908B22.pdf