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The Children engaged in economic activity on part-time or full time basis who are deprived of childhood, potentiality and dignity are called child labour. The factors of child labour are many like Poverty, unemployment, underemployment, illiteracy, child rearing methods, family size, birth order of children, lack of good schooling which are dealt in this paper, considering India, for the purpose of finding solutions to these factors and thereby eliminating the child labour issue from the country and Globe. Several statutes such as IPC, Juvenile justice and the Child Labour (Prohibition and Abolition) Acts are dealing with care and protection, prohibition and abolition of child labour can be further amended to suit to the technological advancements taking at an accelerated pace so as to keep them updated to combat the issue. The nature of change of labour work is also much changing day to day and from decade to decade and now it is taking place on an yearly basis with the introduction of robotics in the industries, workshops, computerization and machine learning, AI tools etc. In this paper, the researcher has discussed the causative factors leading to child labour, to offer appropriate preventive measures to combat the same.