Problems confronting child ragpickers in slums

The paper, based on empirical study of 150 child ragpickers between 6-15 ye ars and their 100 parents, randomly selected from slum dwelling units in Ku rukshetra town, attempts to examine the socioeconomic conditions of the pro blems confronting children engaged in ragpicking. Their physical outlook, f actors forcing the children to take up the present job, and behavioural and other changes not-iced after taking up the present work are the major area s of the study. The subjects (parents and children) in the present study ha ve been interviewed with the help of separately designed pie-tested, struct ured schedule. Informations gathered in 1996 from the field, have been anal ysed with the help of statistical techniques and presented in tabular forms .