Abstract
Background: Child labor though not very prevalent in the developed countries is a serious problem in the backward countries. Children are indulging in various kinds of work which are not legal and which may adversely affect their mental and physical growth and development properly.

Objective: The overall objective of the study was to find out the actual situation of mine and quarries children in Kavre district of Nepal. The emphasis was to find out the possible cause and to know their preferred program to reduce such child labour.

Study Design: With the time and resources available, the study design had to be altered to a questionnaire asked to the persons involved in 8 VDCs and 2 Municipalities of the district. The factors of interest in analysis of results were felt age, sex, caste, level of education, working hours per day, wages, child rights, plan, possible causes of such work and programs for prevention of child labour.

Method: the enumerators administered the questionnaire in each spot to the children and their parents, teachers, social workers, politicians and the owners of the industries. The spot were revisit if the people were missing on the first visit

Results: Total 1003 persons 29% of them were child labours under 15 years. 86.2% children were fiund just literate. Since only 46% children knew very little about child rights and 59.8% children started work at the age of 8-10 years and more than 80% preferred study to this job.

Conclusion and discussion: This study shows that the children are involved in quarries work against their own and their parents will because of financial constraints. The parents and the children, too, can be motivated for education by package of program consisting of any income generating vocational training and educational activities giving rise to awareness regarding child rights.