Child labour -- can we abolish it

Children are the real future of India, their welfare will make India's future.Earlier we had Child Labour Prohibition and Regulation Act 1986, now we have Child and adolescent Labour Prohibition Act which has been passed by the Union Cabinet two days ago.It has banned adolescents (below 18 years old) from being employed in hazardous industries. Earlier act protected children below the age of 14 only,now teenagers below 18 get the protection of the law too. The right to education Act has enabled children below 14 to attend school. But will this bring any changes in the ground level? In India there were 12.6 million child labourers between the age of 5 to 14(as per census taken 11 years ago).
 Poverty brings children to the job market. And no law can protect them from poverty. Factory Act of 1938, Plantation Act of 1951, Mines Act of 1952 and Minimum wages Act of 1948 tried to protect the vulnerable children. Even the Employment of Children Act of 1938 was repealed. Juvenile Justice of Children passed in 2000 could not protect the children of India. When laws cannot always come to terms with reality, a register was to be maintained in factories to keep attendance of the children working in them(those who were permitted to work) There are many who tried to save the children through 'Bachpan Bachao Andolan', CARE and several others.
Because of the lack of regulation and order in the labour market, children are inducted into it at an early age. And economy is informal, we cannot make laws for it. There are cottage industries in which children work.Even after making laws,there are legal blocks--who can be brought to court for what etc. There is lack of modernization in industries like carpet making and hand loom weaving which are done manually.Demand for children is high as they learn easily, and make no complaints. There are several reasons why children are recruited in the job market.Illiteracy among women in rural areas, causes early entry of children into the labour market. Rural economy is different--when it is transplanting or harvesting more "hands" are needed.Families which have cows or sheep need extra family members to take care of them. We must differentiate children who work within the family and those who earn money outside the family. Technically, the second kind are the child labourers.Child s deprived of education and freedom of childhood in both kinds of work.Indebtedness and large number of siblings also leads to child labour. Some families have a strange tactic  for survival--have lots and lots of children(in hope they will add to family income).They create poverty and  child labour emanates from this wrong tactic. Why does child labour continue to exist despite so many legal steps to stop it? The nature of the economy is such that it pushes families into poverty, land-less ness and lack of wealth drives poor families to encourage child labour.The truth is that adult labour is costlier than child labour and employers value that. When men,women and children enter the labour market, there is plenty of labour and that is an inviting scenario to the potential employers. When mothers have to work for betterment of the family along with fathers, they stop their children from going to school and convince them to go work too. Such people are illiterates and do not realize the urgency of  education.People work very hard to come out of poverty and try to use education to climb out of it.They do this by educating the next generation even under very pressing circumstances.State of poverty has to be tackled before bringing laws for abolishing child labour. Laws on paper must become  reality, so that India's future will become bright.....when there is a smile in each child's face going to school. If we invest on education, future citizens(today's children) will live in better conditions.