Within Legal Framework

Outside Legal Framework

• The Factories Act (1948).
• The Plantation Labour Act (1951).
• The Mines Act (1952).
• The Beedi and Cigar workers (Conditions of Employment) Act (1966).
• The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act (1986).

(Except in the process of Family based work or recognised School based activities, children are not permitted to work in occupations involved in:- railway; carpet weaving; cement manufacturing; cloth printing; beedi making; mica cutting & splitting; manufacturing of matches, explosives, fireworks; soldering process in electronic industries, etc.,.)

Girls

• collecting fuel/fodder
• fetching drinking water
• weeding
• food processing
• poultry keeping
• caring younger siblings

Boys

• ploughing/digging
• grazing cattle
• carrying goods
• threshing/harvesting
• purchase/sale in markets
• tool related activities

• Construction Labour
• Couriers
• Domestic workers
• Tanneries
• Vendors
• Helpers in restaurants, shops, canteens and garages.
• Porters and rag pickers
• Shoe-shiners
• Sweepers and waste recyclers
• Sex workers
• Factories/Workshops (e.g.) hosiery units

Examples of Home Based  Industries

• Beedi rolling
• Papad making
• Bindi making
• Gem polishing
• Incense making
• Embroidery, etc.