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                                    Child Labor Figures According to a 1981 report, there were 24, 00,000 child laborers in India and this number increased to 3 crores and five lakhs in 1991. According to the Labor Department of India this figure increased to four crores 96 lakh in 2001. But according to the Human Rights Commission there are more than 7 crore child labors in India. According to the non-government sources the number of child laborers in India is more than 10 crores. At present the number of child labors in India is more than 12 crores. Some reports say that there are more than 20 million child laborers in India while others say that the number is more than 50 million. Various reports tell different figures but it is very clear that the problem of child labor in India one of its biggest problems. These figures indicate that almost all the items that are produced in out country pass through the hands of child labors in various ways. 61 per cent child labor of the world is found in the Asian countries. In India most of the child labors is found in Andhra Pradesh. In India Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh etc are the production factories of child labor. In all these states the situation of the child labor is very pathetic.   International Efforts UNO had held a convention related to the rights of children in 1992 in which its organization, that deals in child related matters, United Nations Children Convention, had laid downs comprehensive guidelines related to the rights of the children. According to these guidelines children have the rights to live, security, progress, health and to get the education. For the protection of these rights, UNO had, at the international level, initiated various child labor stoppage programs with the help of governments of some nations so the right to education for the children of age group of 6-14 will be turned into reality. But these programs met with one of their biggest setbacks when International Labor Organization released its report regarding the child labor of the world. Everyone was stunned when it said that there are more than 25 crore child laborers in whole of the world. Out of which almost 13 lack children are working in most dangerous places like the coal [...]