With reference to the child labour, consider the following statements

1. Since the NCLP was merged with the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan in 2016, the labour Ministry has no records of child labour.
2. The currently available data is of the 2011 Census, which says the country has more than a million child labourers.

Select the correct statement.

The Centre does not have any data on child labour in the country and a reason for this is the drying up of budgetary provisions meant for the National Child Labour Project (NCLP), which had been monitoring the issue for about three decades.

• Since the NCLP was merged with the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan in 2016, the labour Ministry has no records of child labour. The currently available data is of the 2011 Census, which says the country has more than a million child labourers.
• Education Ministry also does not have a mechanism to find out the number of children engaged in child labour.
• Though India has a legislation, the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, since 1986 the menace of child labour is continue unchecked.

Hence both statements are correct.

By: Shubham Tiwari