NEW DELHI: Around Rs 1,20,000 crore is pocketed as profit by employers of child labour annually in India, an amount that is rarely reported as income to the government in order to evade taxes. This is the startling claim of a preliminary report of a child rights NGO. According to the NGO’s estimates, there are six crore child labourers in the country currently. “This is including the number of children who have dropped out of school or never returned, unlike government estimates which only take into account the number of children who have never…
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