Role of Information and Technology in Curbing Child Labour

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a term that includes any device or application like radio, television and computer network as well as various services and applications associated with them such as video conferencing and distance learning. This paper traces out the role of ICT to protect the children from various kinds of exploitations they are face at their work places where they serve due to bad economic conditions of the family or we can say that due to poverty. An inadequate income of the elder members of the family that forces little children to do any kind of work so that they can get money it hardly matters that they are getting money at the cost of their health mental as well as physical and childhood ,the most important stage which they have never enjoyed. Therefore, ICT can help a lot to provide information to parents of these children, employees and the whole society about the various laws regarding the protection of children which includes the particular age for particular kind with some conditions, free and compulsory education, mid -day meal programme, vocational trainings, skill development programmes and such other policies framed for the protection of the children below the age of 14 years. Government as well as non-government organisations are also dependent on ICT sources to collect data regarding the social evil from time to time and also arrange awareness camps in those areas where people are forced by several circumstances to push their children towards market to earn money at such tender age when they should be in schools to brighten their future.