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Gururaj Guggari
Child labour is a pervasive problem throughout the world, especially in developing countries. India has the largest number of child labour in the world and constitutes around 3.6% of the total labour force. Majority (75%) of them work in rural setting and 1/3 are girls but the alarming feature of the problem in recent year was the enormous increases of child workers in urban setting. Therefore, investigators conducted a descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding child labour among the mother’s resi ding at urban slum area and objectives of the study are ? To assess the level of knowledge regarding child labour among urban slum mother’s. ? Find out the association between knowledge of urban slum mother's regarding child labour with selected the demographic variables. ? Develop and distribute informational pamphlet on child labour among urban slum mother’s The descriptive design was used and purpose of the study was to assess the knowledge regarding child labour among the mother’s. The investigator adminis tered the tool 50 mother’s residing at urban slums area at Gondipura. The data was collected by distributing knowledge questionnaires about child labour. The data was analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistics is frequency, percentage and chi -square. The majority of 42% mothers belongs to the age group of 31 -35 years, 66% education status of mothers are illiterate, 64% occupation of mothers are housewife, 92% mother’s having kaccha hou se, 80% mother’s belongs to joint family, 72% mother’s family income monthly are less than 3,000 rupees. Findings of the study revealed that out of 50 samples majority of people, 36% had poor knowledge, 54% people had average knowledge and only 10% peoples have good knowledge regarding child labour. The study concluded that the majority of mothers under study were had only average Knowledge regarding child labour which suggestive for expanding. their knowledge and awareness in community.
Keywords: Child labour, Urban slum, Health , Crime rate, Education