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2.2.1. Some people in India feel that society cannot _afford to do without the labour of children while the real question is whether we can afford to have child labour, illiterate clear It i In children and still talk of tomorrow's citizens'?
that compulsory elementary education cannot wait till poverty is totally eliminated. It is the child's constitutional right and the duty of the State to provide it. State intervention to remove children from the labour force and require that they attend school has always been politically contentious. The debate is endless. The family's need for money, the mother's need for help; the difficulties of the industry dependent on child labour, the View that education would make the poor unsuitable for the kind of manual work that is required, the resources, the children's need For education and the society's claim that the children should be "trained to intelligent citizenship".