Situation of Domestic Child Labourer

Abstract

Lamjung district, one of the 75 districts of Nepal is a part of Province No. 4 with Besisahar as district headquarters covers an area of 653 sq miles and population of 1,67,724 containing mixed habitation of different cast and ethnicity. Karaputar is a municipality of established on 19 September 2015 with center of Karapu bazaar and population of 10,836. Child labour is prevalent in Nepalese society. Generally, child labourers are those who are below 14 years of age, deprived of minimum level of facilities, working long hours, and getting low scale salary or wages and damage their physical and mental growth. The domestic child labour as a crucial issue around the world as well as Nepal has been taken as problem to be studied. The main objective of this study is to study the social demography of Domestic Child Labour in context of Nepal. This study is based on research design of descriptive and explanatory as well as quantitative and some qualitative ones. The major data as primary and some secondary data from reports have been used in the study. The primary data was taken from 90 households of Karaputar Municipality, Lamjung, ward no 4 and 5. The information for the research was collected through personal interview with the DCLs using technique of both random and non random sampling. A set of questionnaires filled with both open and closed questions and key informant interview were used. Out of 90 respondents 47 were male and 43 female. 78 % of DCLs belong to age group 10-15. 10%DCLs are working as per their parents' advice and 65.12%DCLs were found to do all types of work. Almost DCLs (90%) were literate and the job satisfaction percent is also 62.22. 18.9 % DCLs fell illness while on working period. Most of the children had time for recreation. 57.7% have bed facility and 96.7 %t use mattress and blankets. About 93% were free to leave the job. Only 44.4% were found paid work. All DCLs had facility to watch TV. Most DCLs were from Lamjung. Most of DCLs had chance to take bath at least 4 times a month, most of them felt that they were loved more by their mistress. Nepal has already signed ILO and agreed in the elimination of worst form of child labour. But, government should focus on education and poverty alleviation to meet goals and the agreement get practically implemented.