Child Labour’s Condition in Restaurant, Hotel and Tea Shops Case Study of Khandbari municipality, Sankhuwasava, Nepal
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Central Department of Rural Development
Abstract
The research reflects the Child Labour’s Condition in Restaurant, Hotel and Tea Shops a
Case Study of Khandbari municipality, Sankhuwasava District, Nepal’. In Nepal
Children are facing various problems due to the backwardness. 'Poverty' and 'illiteracy'
are the main causes of 'child labor' in Nepal. Generally, Child laborers are those who
are below 14 years of age, engaged in different physical activities without desired level of
facilities, working long hours, getting low wages and losing opportunity of their physical
and mental development.
This study is basically in descriptive and analytical form. For the completion of this study
both primary and secondary data have been used. The primary data were collected from
scheduled interview, observation and key informant interview from 30 respondents
selected from simple random sampling under the probability sampling. The secondary
data were collected from different books, reports, articles, study reports of individuals and
from web sites of different offices. The collected data were edited, coded, and tabulated
and these were analyzed by using computer application soft-wares.
A child who is first setting foot is an urban area is most likely to gain easy employment in
a roadside restaurants, hotel and tea shops. Cheap labor demands are high and skills are
not required. At times the children get involved with the help of parents, relatives or
friends. These children do not have any option other than working whatever job they can
lay their hands on. Child labor is a reflection of the socio-economic reality of the
country..
Poverty is obviously one of the push factors of child exploitation but there are many other
pull factors, which contribute for the continuity of poverty, hunger and starvation.
Because of the unaware society people give birth to many children then they can take
care or the parent break which lead the children to drop out to live on their own, which
ultimately push children to work on their early age for their food.
The poverty is the leading cause of child labor in general. However, other factors like
inequality to resources, large family size, illiteracy, lack of schooling facilities,
dysfunctional families also contribute children to enter into labors market at their early
age. Also it was found that, children have to support their family due to the poor
economic condition. As a result, they have to leave school or they cannot go to school.
At last, it is concluded that the child workers in hotels and restaurants are one of the
worst forms of child labor. It is not only the poverty but also parent illiteracy, lack of
schooling facilities, lack of employment opportunities and weak legal enforcement are
also the contributing factors for children to be engaged on such labor. The necessity of
today is, to protect working children from exploitation abuses, improper influence,
illiteracy, ignorance and hazardous condition to develop their physical mental, social
and moral development.