• Syed Riyaz Pasha

Abstract Children are regarded as a nation's most valuable asset and the most vulnerable segment of society. Compared to adults, all children are vulnerable by nature, but some are more critically vulnerable than others. Child vulnerability is a downward spiral where each shock leads to a new level of vulnerability, and each new level opens for a host of new risks. In other words, with each shock, the likelihood that a child will suffer a negative outcome increase. Over the years, child protection has undergone significant change. The traditional approach of custodial care in an institution is being replaced because of a strong conviction that the right of family is one of the most basic rights of a child. Recognizing this right of a child to a family, all interventions must try and ensure that the physical, social, emotional, and educational needs of the child are met in a secure, nurturing family environment. The child labors have no shelter, or food and no education. They run the risk of contracting various ailments and skin diseases. They are vulnerable to exploitation by almost anyone-the employer, the employer the parents. The cops and even the common man they become easy targets of drug pushers they are even sexually abused. Certain principles of policy are therefore, to be followed by the state so that children get opportunities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and the childhood and youth are protected against exploitation and moral and material abandonment. Let us hope, by the orders and the directions of the Supreme Court in December 1996, the child of the twenty – first century will find himself into the “heaven of freedom”.

Key words: Causes, Child Labor. Exploitation, employer, childhood, material, abandonment.

"Topic: Poverty and Child Labour in Karnataka -A Study ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no.g605-g610, January-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301675.pdf

"Topic: Poverty and Child Labour in Karnataka -A Study ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 1, page no. ppg605-g610, January-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2301675.pdf