Children are the future of any country.

The study aimed at examining the prevalence of child labour in the villages of East and West Jaintia Hills Districts of Meghalaya where coal mining is predominant.

Undernourished women tend to deliver low birth weight babies (Karmer, 1987) and to have pregnancy complications (Baird, 1947). Perinatal mortality and prematurity rates were found to be high among short statured women (Barros, 1987).

The relationship between society and nature is an old one. It might be better to say that this relationship is ancient.

In India tribals are neglected a lot, discriminated in terms of income distribution and social status.