India Suppliers Have Been Warned To Boycott The Raw Materials For Factory Production Of Child Labor.

GAP, WAL-MART, C&A, H&M warned India suppliers to boycott textiles factories suspected of using children and contractors.

A girl employment system in Tamil Nadu, India, is threatening India's $11 billion garment export industry, and several international retailers are far away from their supply chains suspected of exploitation.

Welfare agencies often strongly accuse.

This development trend may have serious consequences for the domestic garment industry in India, because the income of India's garment industry is 80%.

In Tamil Nadu, thousands of rural and tribal girls are looking for jobs under the "Sumangali" contract in the textile industry of the state. "Sumangali" is "bride" in Tamil, and they sign a three year contract with 36000-56000 rupees.

The factory owner paid the total amount to their parents when the contract expired, which was supposed to help these girls to get married.

Tamil Nadu introduced this plan in the middle of 1990s, which is often a great source of labor in the face of labour shortage.

The total payment and free accommodation in the scheme are very attractive to poor families, and the labor monitoring agency claims that girls are restricted during the contract period.

The function plan is attraction, which is trapped in the contract period.

This argument is supported by social consciousness and compulsory education (preservation), a non-governmental organization in the Rupp knitwear hub, 400 km from Chennai, state capital.

The girls were trapped in hotels and were not allowed to make phone calls. Their salaries could not be paid until three years later.

They only get 40-60 rupees a day, and the minimum wage in the state is 184 rupees.

They have to work for 12 hours.

In some cases, the contract was terminated illegally, and the girls returned empty handed.

But industry agencies say the plan has given girls dignity, otherwise they are illiterate and poor women.

The southern India Textile Mills Association (SIMA) said that the word "Sumangali" has been deleted, and about 120 textile factories under the association provide a "apprenticeship plan with dormitory facilities".

It was misled to label the package.