Executive Summary
- The study finds that major portion of the child labour are 12 to 17 ages in the survey areas.
- Most of the child labour are male that is 97.6 percent of the whole respondents.
- Only 1.6% of the surveyed child labour are disabled children while major portion are physically challenged child or deaf.
- Only .8% of the surveyed child labour are included from ethnic community where 99.2% are mainstream.
- Most of the child labour are engaged in automobile workshops (31.4%), Welding Works or Gas Worker Mechanic (11.6%) and Construction sector (10.2%) in the surveyed area.
- On the other hand, child labour are also engaged in in manufacturing of aluminium products (1.0%), battery recharging (0.3%), brick or stone breaking (4.2%), engineering machine including lathe machine (6.0%), manufacturing of glass and glass products (0.6%), manufacturing of matches (0.1%), manufacturing of plastic or rubber products (0.1%), steel furniture or car or metal furniture painting (0.9%), manufacturing of leather footwear (0.3%), vulcanizing (0.8%), metal works (0.8%), manufacturing of jarda and quivam (0.1%), manufacturing of pesticides (0.2%), iron and steel foundry and casting of iron and steel (2.8%), fireworks (3.0%), manufacturing of jewellery and imitation ornaments or bangles factory or goldsmith (5.5%), truck or tempo or bus helper (3.8%), stainless steel mill or cutlery (0.2%), bobbin factory (5.8%), weaving worker (1.9%), electric mechanic (1.9%), biscuit factory or bakery (0.9%), butcher (0.5%), blacksmith (1.1%), street based work of children (1.8%), brick production, collection and car (0.8%), child labour in informal/ local tailor (1.2%) and garbage and waste disposal management (0.2%).
- The wage condition of the child labour is very poor as they are getting wages up to 473 taka per day in the study area. Study also finds that majority of the child labor (42.6%) gets below 100 takas. On the contrary, 7.6% of the child labour are working without wages.
- The per day working hour is higher than international standard as most of the child labour (86.6%) are working 8 or above 8 hours per day in the study area.
- It is found that major portion of the child labour (85.5%) has been working for below 2 years while 48.4% are below 1 year.
- The study also finds that 54.8% of the child labour has been dropped out from class one to ten while 31.5% are dropped out from above class five. Only 1.3% of the child labour has no any class or academic background in the study area.
- It is alarming that 2.7% of the child labour are engaged in hazardous work due to parent’s choice. Moreover, poverty (83.3%) and lack of inquisitiveness in study (4.5%) are responsible for engaging in hazardous labour in the study.
- Survey finds that there are three types of opportunities at workplace in the stud area such as educational, rest and recreational opportunity while 57.7% of the child labour do not get educational opportunities, 23.7% do not get resting opportunity and 66.1% do not get recreational opportunities.
- Child labour claim about physical punishment and using slang language of the employer in the workplace. Despite of a big portion of the child labour says that employer behave in good manner, but 2.9% claim about bad behaviour by the employer at the workplaces in the study area. (to be continued)
