International Journal of Research Available at https://edupediapublications.org/journals e-ISSN: 2348-6848 p-ISSN: 2348-795X Volume 05 Issue 04 February 2018 Available online: https://edupediapublications.org/journals/index.php/IJR/ Page | 1381 Legal Provisions Regarding Child Labour in India: To protect the Rights of Children Pranav Ranga Assistant Professor Institute of Law Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra Abstract This paper presents various legal provisions of child labour, for the purpose of protections and realizing the rights of the children in India.Children are future citizens of the Nation and their adequate development is utmost priority of the country. Unfortunately, child labor engulfs children across the world. In India are home to 25.96 crores individuals aged 5-14 years. Child labors are very alarming.The 2011 national census of India estimated total number of child labor aged 5– 14 to be at 1.01 crores.Article 21A, Right to Education is providing free and compulsoryeducation to all children of the age of six to fourteen years. Another fundamental right Article 24: Prohibition ofEmployment of Children in Factoriesetc: No child below the age of fourteen yearsshall be employed to work in any factory/mine or engaged in any otherhazardous employment. Key Words :Fundamental Right, Marginal Child Workers, Juvenile, Adolescent Introduction Children are the greatest gift to humanity and childhood is an important and impressionable stage of human development as it holds the potential to the future development of any society. Due to certain forces and circumstances children are compelled to work in the early stages of their childhood which does harm to the child and society. Hence child labour is considered as an economic and social problem LokSabha Secretariat, 2013). Child labor is a pervasive problem throughout the world, especially in developingcountries. Africa and Asia together account for over 90 percent of total childemployment in the world.Therefore, there are a number of social, political and economic factors which are responsible for the use of child labour in poorest countries and regions of the world (Siddiqi and Patrinos, 1995, Malik, et al, 2002).Higher income inequality within a province/region also increases the likelihood of child labour. There is a trade-off between child labour and child schooling. The low adult market wages are key determinants of child labour and that social norms may be responsible for the intergenerational persistence of child labour (Wahba, J., 2006). The parents‟ level of education plays an important role in reducing this tendency; thus establishing the linkage between social and human capital outcomes in the family (Das and Mukherjee, 2006).It looks at the definition of child labour, the extent of its prevalence, the reasons why children work, and the