Child Labour

According to a study by the ILO, the majority of the world's child labour (around 71 percent) is done in the agriculture sector , including cotton plantations and rice fields . Around 17 percent are employed as service staff , mainly as domestic workers or in restaurants ,and another 12 percent of child labour is spread across jobs in the industry sector, including dangerous activities in mines .

                                                                                                     Many child labourers in India are working for starvation wages in textile factories , helping with the processing of carpets ,or doing back breaking work in brick making factories and quarries. Other child labourers work selling cigarettes , called ''Bidis'' , on the street for the tobacco industry.Children are also used for cheap labour in industries such as steel extraction , gem polishing and carpet industries .