employment.
But of these 19,000 are over 14 and thus legally in employment. For the remaining 17,000 the census does not distinguish between different types of employment. It is legal.
to employ children in other than industrial undertakings and dangerous trades, and there is no indication that they were employed illegally. The number is also tiny in a population of 4 million.
In summary, although the laws relating to child labour arc son c- times broken, despite the efforts of the Labour Department, the incidence of illegal employment is not higher.
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