Child labour exists in rural and urban areas in different ways. A large number of children is employed in tea-stalls, hotels, and shops on daily, weekly or monthly wages. In a number of cases the wages are received by the parents / guardians. The absolute majority of them belong to the poor and needy families with parents without any formal education.

Both, girls and boys are deployed in case of grazing, cutting fodder, and gathering wood. Girls in rural areas are exclusively engaged in household duties like fetching water. without receiving any formal education. Girls can be commonly observed in areas without drinking water facility fetching water in goat-skin bags on donkey backs from large distances.

From a sociological point of view it is a sort of child abuse when a child is engaged in household duties, without going to school. A large number of children works outside in the fields, grazing cattle and poaching wild chicks. They are engaged in household duties instead of going to school. A large number of them drop out of primary school.

There are two carpet making centers at Usta Mohammad and Dera Allah Yar. Around 50 boys work in the centers learning carpet weaving with monthly stipends of 200 Rs. to 400 Rs. They are all above the age of 12. Previously the number was higher, but after the carpet industry faced charges of child labour, the younger ones were fired.

 There is a lack of government support for apprenticeship. The major source of apprenticeship for boys is the private motor workshops, tailoring shops, carpentry, cooking, and bicycle repair shops, where they receive informal training. Such training is observed as helping them in future apprenticeship. In case of girls, it is embroidery work, which they learn traditionally at home. The government sector and NGOs can play an important role in the promotion of apprenticeship for children so that they can have a professional / technical qualification to help them later on in life.

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