In an exclusive Interview with Padma Shri awardee Shantha Sinha, a child rights activist, we uncover the roots of the anti-child labour movement in India. She shares how the movement based on management principles has stood the test of time.
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As of 2011, there were as many as 10.1 million child labourers in India, with many estimates not covering the unorganised sector, having still dismal statistics. It was in 1992 that the government ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children, as a part of its liberalisation agenda. However, it was the crusade, which had begun in the 1980s, based on management principles that helped change the course of India’s struggle with the menace of child labour.
Management education was introduced in India in the…