Socio-Economic Condition of Domestic Child labourers in Nepal (A Case Study of Budhabare Vdc, Jhapa)

Abstract

The content of ‘child labour’ is currently prevailing issue of the world and there aremillion of children trapped into different nature of worst / hazardous form of child labourin various regions. It has significant percent in developing countries like SouthAsian,mid and West African and other Latin American countries. Many of the studies havecleared that South Asian region is core area of prevailing child labour. Nepal is one of thedeveloping countries and lies between two most populous countries of theworld. Thereare much more practices of child labour from the ancient period of time. ILO-IPEC hasdesigned a TBP to eliminate all forms of child labour by the year 2014 in jointcooperation of Nepal Government and its latest records shows such events arediminishing, even though, there are no significant study on the context of domestic childlabourers. This dissertation has focused on socio-economic and demographic condition of selected115 domestic child labourers residing in Budhabare Village Development Committeeusing convenience sampling method. It has tried to find out the socio-economicconditions of domestic child labourers causes of being domestic child labourers, workingrelationship with employers and other matters concerning with their future. About 76 percent child labourers are below the age of 15 years. The dominance ofBrahmin and Chhetri could be seen in numbers of children with 44.3 percent in total.Half of domestic child labourers are compelled to leave their home due to poverty andmost of them fall in the age group 10-14, who started to work as domestic childlabourers. The large number of child labourers performs the task of dishwashing.Majority of children get better food in the employers’ house with compared to their ownhouses.None of them are dropped out from the school but facing the problems of heavyworkloads as well as irregularity in classes and also insufficient time for homework andinsufficient educational materials.