Indian Kids Continue To Work One Year After India Imposed Ban On Child Labor

New Delhi, India (AHN) - A year after India government banned the hiring of children for domestic labor or employment in restaurants, and in other hazardous conditions, their employers are still at it.

Child labor is still rampant, with millions of children under 14 work in food stalls, even roadside eateries.

The children are routinely subjected to different forms of child abuse, BBC News reported of a study by Save the Children.

Save the Children's Anuradha Maharishi told BBC News that she recently met a 12-year old girl in West Bengal. "She had been working for the last two years as a domestic servant in the city of Calcutta."

Maharishi said once the girl delayed in serving dinner which irked her employer, who scalded her hands with burning hot food.

The girl, who managed to escape her employer, is now under the custody of Save the Children.

The study showed the children are deprived of food, are beaten up, or are made subject to sex abuse.

India is reported to have more than 12 million - with an estimated 200,000 working as domestic helpers, and servants in restaurants, hotels, and other recreational centers -- child laborers.

BBC News reported that since the ban took effect last year, only more than 2,000 violations have been reported.

Last year, New Delhi government had warned it would take "firm action against those violating the law."

Kailash Satyarthi of Bachpan Bachao Aandolan, a non-governmental organization working against child-labor, said, "In the last one year, a mockery has been made out the law," reported the online news source dnaindia.com.