Child Slaves In Modern India

Extracts from “Child Slaves in Modern India”

“It is not poverty which prevents India from investing more in its children, but rather the prejudices and values of those who create and implement policy in India…….Indeed, at least some government officials appear to be laboring under the conviction that the Bonded Labour Act does not apply to childredn, an interpretation that has no basis in the law itself nor in Supreme Court cases interpreting the law.”