An attempt has been made to study the magnitude and distribution of child labour in different states of the India. Labourers below the age of 14 years are called child labour. India has the largest number of child labour in the world. According to the census figures of 1991, India has 11.29 million child labourers, which constitute 1.34 per cent of the total population of our country. In 2001, the age-group (0-14) years was 308 million and 2013 it was 19.36 millionThe latest estimates by the International Labour Organization (ILO) 2006 put the number of working children between the ages of 5 to17 years old at 218 Million. Child labourers are engaged in various types of work like agriculture, livestock, frorestry, manufacturing and households etc. In many countries child labour is mainly an agricultural issue. Worldwide 60 percent of all child labourers in the age group 5 - 17 years work in agriculture, including farming, fishing, aquaculture, forestry, and livestock. This amounts to over 129 million girls and boys. In the urban areas, children work in dhabas, eateries helpers or cleaners in trucks and as domestic servants etc. \Poverty is undoubtedly a dominant factor. Children born in poor families are forced to work not only for their own survival but also for their family. Awareness of the people and Government also compels poor parents to make their children employed as laborers in agricultural forms, factories, brick kilns and as domestic servants. .Though, children are not well paid, they still serve as major contributors to family income. Therefore, mere legislation can not do any good to our children and can not prevent them from becoming children labour.