Previous year MCQs

Census UPPSC 1995 GS-I
Question

Child labour in India is estimated to be:

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option B: 10 million

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “10 million”.
According to the 2011 Census, 10.1 million children in India between the ages of 5 and 14 were working, which is 3.9% of the total child population in that age group. Of those, 5.6 million were boys and 4.5 million were girls.

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