In a report recently released by the New York based Human Rights Watch revealed the rampant prevalence of bonded child labour in the silk industry in India.
The 85 page report investigates bonded child labourers working in three major silk producing Indian states, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The report reveals that children working in the silk industry have not been highlighted so far because of the sympathy for and pressure of the employers.  Though children working in the carpet industry in Uttar Pradesh and those working in the match and fireworks industries in Tamil Nadu have been identified and rescued from bonded labour, children in the silk industry have not received similar attention and help.
The report says that the Indian government not only denies the existence of child labourers in the country but has shifted it's efforts towards awareness building instead of rescuing children trapped in bonded labour and persecuting the employers.
In it's recommendations to the government of India, HRW stresses the need for the government to ensure the implementation of bonded labour and child labour laws in the country and hold violating parties responsible for their violations.
Complete Report: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/india/