1. Executive summary
2. Introduction to child labour
3. Review of child labour related legislation, policies and programmes
4. Overview of official perceptions of child labour
5. Outline of recent, coordinated action in karnataka to combat child labour
6. Description od division- wise studies on child labour in Karnataka
7. Background on current approaches to chld labour
8. Outline of definitions of child labour
9. Overview of statistics relating to child labour
10. Account of areas of working involving child labour
11. Description of prevailing conditions of work and impact of these on children
12. Analysis of factors contributing to prevalence of child labour:
a. Poverty
b. Education
c. Family
d. Population
13. Conclusion
14. Strategic recommendations

The document was prepared for the Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Karnataka, based on five studies commissioned by the department, supported by UNICEF, and conducted by NGOs in the four administrative divisions of the state, including the capital city Bangalore. It represents an effort to leverage the strengths of each of the five studies to present the ground realities concerning child labour in the state and to suggest possible approaches toward the goal of eradicating child labour. One striking fact to emerge was the close connection between child labour and the burgeoning unorganized sector, which accounted for 92% of the country's total labour force. This connection was attributed to the heavy involvement of child labour in the organized sector and the overwhelming employment of parents of child labourers in the unorganized sector.

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