A relatively better economic status of families in the district, mainly due to good income from employment in Gulf states, has limited the number of children working as labourers. A small number of boys are found working in some of the automobile workshops. They work as apprentices and are supposed to open their own workshops after completion of the training. Some of the working children are in bakeries, bicycle repair shops, black-smith shops, beef and fish shops, furniture workshops, cloth merchants, hotels, engineering and electrical workshops, tyre shops, hair cutting saloons, tailoring shops, tunnoors (loaf makers), and welding works. In most of the cases children are working as apprentices and are paid a little amount as stipend.

In the localities far from settled villages, where water is not available in the house, children are supposed to fetch water and sometimes to collect fuel wood. In the livestock farming communities, they herd cattle and help in cattle raising. Sometimes children are engaged for picking fruit from trees like dates and mangoes. Although all these tasks, children perform, are considered as a help to their families, these activities actually keep them from going to school. The girl child faces a similar situation, who is either not allowed to go to school or is taken off because her presence is needed at home, to look after younger siblings and help in household chores, collection of water, etc.

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