Child labour exists in both rural and urban areas, but under different circumstances. Because the district has hardly any industry, only a limited number of children works in industry. However, a large number of children is employed on tea-stalls, hotels, shops and stores on daily, weekly and monthly wages. In a number of cases the wages are received by the parents or guardians. The absolute majority of the children that work, belongs to poor and needy families, without any formal education. Both boys and girls have jobs like grazing cattle, cutting fodder and gathering of wood around.

Girls in rural areas are exclusively engaged in household duties. In areas without drinking water facilities, girls fetch water in goat-skin bags on donkey back from far away. From a sociological point of view it is a kind of child abuse when a child is engaged in household duties, the making of dung cakes and grazing without going to school. A large number of children is engaged in household duties instead of going to school. A large number of them has dropped out of school.

There is a lack of government support for apprenticeship. The most frequent places of apprenticeship for boys are private motor workshops, tailors, carpenters and bicycle repair shops where they receive informal training. Girls learn traditional embroidery work at home. The government sector and NGOs can play an important role in the promotion of apprenticeship for children, so that they can get professional qualifications to help them later on in life.

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