1. Problem of child labour and primary education in India : analysing the change
2. The teacher and child labour
3. Child labour in India : putting compulsory primary education on the political agenda
4. Child labour and universalisation of compulsory education
5. National consultation on 'right to education: a strategy to eliminate child labour'
6. 'No to child labour, yes to education' : unfolding of a grass roots movement in Andhra Pradesh
7. Eradication of child labour through education - experience of the concerned for working children
8. Simultaneous analysts of child labour and child schooling : comparative evidence from Nepal and Pakistan
9. Planning education and vocational programmes for working children
10. Experiences of educational alternative for working children

This paper attempts to analyze the nature and magnitude of the problem of child labor vis-a-vis the quality of primary education in India. It highlights the socio-economic factors responsible for the existence of many working children in the country. The paper also tries to find why we have utterly failed to fulfill our constitutional obligation to provide free and compulsory education to every child up to the age of 14 years. With the help of the findings of an empirical study conducted in the U.P., it tries to show how the school system is functioning on the ground and how it affects the problem of child labor. The paper concludes that the right of each child to genuine, free and compulsory elementary education of quality must be assured by the state without any further delay to eliminate the evil of child labor from the country. It also emphasizes that the lessons from the experience of the developed countries could be learnt for achieving success in this task of social reconstruction and development.

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