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Inside Dhuras

A report of Gefont's Study on Child Labour in Tea Estates of Nepal

For a developing country like Nepal, the phrase 'child labour' has several meanings. It paints a gloomy picture of a vicious circle, consisting of adult unemployment-poverty-child labour. It is also synonymous with the denial of childhood of the children of our working community.

We have made lots of promises to our poor children with matching slogans, but, in reality, most of our efforts at keeping the promises have, somehow, been no better than a mere lip service.

The study which examines the extent and the socio-economic conditions of child labour, is also an answer to those "intellectuals" who were not convinced that a trade union organisation can also conduct such a study.