Labor Ministry

The Labor Ministry itself admits that child labor is a kind of financial advantage to employers and an economic compulsion to parents. So it is thought to improve the working conditions of children rather than to remove them from workforce. Government officials advocate: (a) improvement in working conditions (b) ban on employment of children in hazardous occupations (c) regulation of the working hours (d) assurance of proper wages (e) introduction of supplementary education to children rather than formal education (f) incentives for education in the shape of free textbooks, free uniforms, free meals and what not. In this way they do not want any compulsion in education. They are ready to impart informal education to children but not formal education.