Occupations and Processes where Child Labour is Prohibited

No child should be employed or permitted to work in any occupations set forth below, or in any workshop wherein any of the processes listed in Part B of the schedule is carried on, except a workshop wherein the process is carried on by the occupier with the aid of his family or a Government recognised/aided school.

Any occupation connected with –

1. Transport of passengers, goods or mails by railway,
2. Cinder picking, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in the railway premises,
3. Work in a catering establishment at a railway station, involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment, from one platform to another or into or out of a moving train,
4. Work relating to the construction of a railway station or with any other work which is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines,
5. A port authority within the limits of any port,
6. Work relating to selling of crackers and fireworks in shops with temporary licences, and Abattoirs/Slaughter Houses.

The processes specified in Part B of the schedule are:

1. Bidi making
2. Carpet weaving
3. Cement manufacture including bagging thereof
4. Cloth printing, dyeing and weaving
5. Manufacture of matches, explosives and fire works.
6. Mica-cutting and splitting
7. Shellac manufacture
8. Soap manufacture
9. Tanning
10. Wool-cleaning
11. Building and construction industry
12. Manufacture of slate pencils (including packing)
13. Manufacture of products from agate
14. Manufacturing processes using toxic metals and substances such as lead, mercury, manganese, chromium, cadmium, benzene pesticides and asbestos.
15. Hazardous processes, Printing and dangerous operations as notified in the rules of the Factories Act, 1948
16. Cashew and cashew nut descaling and processing.
17. Soldering processes in electronic industries.