According to Save the Children, the number of children working in homes in Delhi alone is seven to eight million. According to the 2001 census figures, India has more than 12.6 million child workers.

Despite the legal change, the government-affiliated V.V. Giri Labour Institute in Noida estimates there are 12.5 million children younger than 14 working in India. (UNICEF puts the real figure at ...

India has had a huge child labor problem since long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck and drove even more kids into work. According to the most recent available government data — which is a ...

FILE - Young Indian child Laxmi carries a broom and hoe as she walks with her mother after working at the site of the annual traditional fair Magh Mela at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers ...

The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Bengaluru, India, educate children who would otherwise be working with their nomadic parents in garbage segregation units, in waste picking or at construction ...

Bangalore, India – Across the globe more than 150 million children between age five and 14 are involved in child labour, while India is home to the highest number of working children in the world.

Farm work exposes children to harmful pesticides, and in Surat’s garment industry, which manufactures saris and other traditional clothing sold across India, children work all-day shifts for as ...

A total of 34,997 intra-state migrant children and 21,070 inter-state migrant children have been provided education in 2011-12. 22 out of 23 districts have been covered under the initiative.

An Indian state government's inspection of a Som Group distillery said child labourers, some aged between 13 and 17, were made to fill and pack liquor bottles and worked long hours.

The average Indian woman is expected to have 2.0 children in her lifetime, according to Pew Research Center analysis in 2023, much lower than India's birth rate of 3.4 children in 1992.