REASONS OF CHILD LABOUR

Large population with high population growth rate;

Almost three-fourths (70 per cent) of the total population living in rural areas,

 with subsistence agricultural activities;

Low productivity and prevalence of poverty;

Unpaid family helpers, especially in agricultural activities;

Discriminating social attitude towards girls and women;

Inadequate educational facilities

FACTS AND FINDINGS.

Pakistan has recently passed laws greatly limiting child labour but those laws are universally ignored, and some 11 milion children, aged four to fourteen, keep that country's factories operating, often working in brutal and squalid conditions.In Pakistan children aged 5-14 are above 40 million. During the last year, the Federal Bureau of Statistics released the results of its survey funded by ILO’s IPEC (International Program on the Elimination of Child Labour). The findings were that 3.8 million children age group of 5-14 years are working in Pakistan out of total 40 million children in this age group; fifty percent of these economically active children are in age group of 5 to 9 years. Even out of these 3.8 million economically active children, 2.7 million were claimed to be working in the agriculture sector. Two million and four hundred thousand (73%) of them were said to be boys.

Meaning of child labour

Children are the flowers of heaven. They are the most beautiful and purest creation of God.
Early in the morning when the children put on different kinds of clothes and begin to go to schools for the sake of knowledge, we feel a specific kind of joy through their innocence,
but there are also other children, those who cannot go to schools due to financial problems, they only watch others go to schools and can merely wish to seek knowledge.It is due to many hindrances and difficulties; desperate conditions that they face in life.When a child in addition to getting education, earns his livelihood, this act of earning a livelihood is called as child Labour.