AMENDMENT TO CHILD LABOUR LEGISLATION IN INDIA- ITS PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITION AND REGRESSIVE IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract India being one of the nations in the world struggling to free itself from the vice of child labour, the area of law being discussed is a recent amendment of the pivotal act which aims at prohibiting and regulating child labour. The interpretative advantage or disadvantage of the laws, it‘s foreseeable ramifications, and hindrances in effective implementation have been argued and prospective counters have been supplied, in this article. This article aims at studying these provisions regarding child employment in respect of their eventual expansions, enforcement and implementation. The arguments have previewed the amendments from standpoint of constitutional, statutory safeguards, entitlements, duties and their impact on international conventions and relations. The progressive intent of the amendments have backfired with its failure to encompass implementation mechanisms. This article sensitises the economic and emotional status of the strata of people to whom the Act caters to, and analyses their take on child labour and incentives to disengage in such practices