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Child labor in india

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child labor in India as one of the Asia's countries accounts for the second highest number where child labour of the world is concernedas. its one of the most Intractable problems there. As the article stated in New Yourk Times, that while being most Indian children between the ages of 6 and 14 be in school, the other 28 million are working in kitchens, on farms, in shops, factories and on construction sites and mostly they are working in coal mines. As it mentioned that these are typs of un safe working conditions but the number of children's working reache 70,000 in about 5,000 mines.