 bill no 63 of 2015 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2015 byshri at nana patil, mp a billfurther to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-sixth year of the republic of india as follows:—short title statement of objects and reasonsthe problem of child labour has assumed alarming proportion in the country one of the primary reasons for this being that the households are finding it difficult to sustain themselves in view of increasing poverty and unemployment and hence engaging children in various kinds of hazardous works to increase their income the problem of child labour is also increasing as a result of increasing migration to urban areas due to little employment opportunities in rural areas even though government has implemented a number of schemes to root out this problem, the problem is still persisting article 24 of the constitution provides that no child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any factory or mine or engaged in any hazardous employment even under the right of children to free and compulsory education act, 2009, the provision for free education has been made for children upto fourteen years of age employers are using child labour not only to lower their cost of production but also to increase labour availability this happens due to widely prevalent poverty, illiteracy and other forms of economic deprivation since the law forbids employment of children below fourteen years of age only, the factory owners can lawfully employ children, who are in their tender years, in occupations that require hard labour this robs the childhood of small children and also makes them vulnerable to various forms of exploitationhowever, there are several other laws under which children have been defined as those who are eighteen years or below in view of this, it is not justifiable to keep age limit at fourteen years for the purpose of their employment the bill, accordingly, seeks to amend article 24 of the constitution with a view to increase the age limit for child labour to eighteen years this will help protect childhood of our future generation from any kind of exploitationhence this billnew delhi;at nana patilfebruary 5,  2015 annexure extract from the  constitution of india       24 no child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employmentprohibition of employment of children in factories, etc      lok  sabha—————— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shri at nana patil, mp)gmgipmrnd—4748ls(s4)—03-03-2015