1. In tea stalls, small hotels and restaurants |
2. For cleaning, in homes, hospitals, shops, and offices. |
3. In garages, the children repair cars or assist the mechanics |
4. Push-carts or rickshaws |
5. Dealing with garbage disposal |
6. Buying vegetables, cleaning them and then selling them |
7. As porters in bus stations, railway stations as well as in markets and godowns |
8. Construction work in homes, shops and offices |
9. Employment in shops |
10. Repairing rickshaws, cycles, carts, chairs |
11. Repairing electronics like coolers, refrigerators, irons, fans and so on, and also |
13. Work as barbers |
14. Ironing clothes |
15. Sell ice creams, fruits, vegetables, juice, lassi, or work in shops that sell these |
16. Sell newspapers, magazines, coconuts, peanuts in buses and trains |
17. Sell essential goods on the footpaths, like handkerchiefs, towels and edible items |
18. Washing or cleaning cars |
20. Washing articles, lights or working as waiters in tent houses, marriages and parties |
21. Domestic work |
23. Bangle factories |
24. Sewing |
25. Sell balloons |
26. Embroidery on clothes |
27. Polishing shoes |
28. Painting, distempering and white washing homes |
29. Playing dholaks (drums) |
30. Printing books or cards |
32. Furniture making |
33. Jhuggi making |
34. Brick making |
35. Sell drinking water |
36. Selling cigarettes, tobacco, betel nuts and leaves |
37. Bag making |
38. Polishing utensils |
39. Garland making |
40. Book binding |
41. Handicrafts,like pens, toys, belts, bags,purse, hats |
42. Making shoes/ sandals |
43. Selling meat, chicken, eggs |
44. Pushing carts up hill or on inclines |
45. Sowing seeds, harvesting, ploughing, watering farms |
46. Animal husbandry (cows, buffaloes, goats, donkeys et cetera) |
47. Gathering fire wood as well as feed for animals |
48. Working in small workshops that deal in electronics like tubelights |
49. Assisting ‘madaris’ (or animal trainers) in road side shows |
50. Selling liquor/ alcohol |
51. Working in doctors’ clinics or at drug stores |
52. Working in photo framing shops |
53. Welding |
54. Cleaning rail coaches |
55. Working as or with cooks |
56. Working as guards |
57. Working as or with blacksmiths |
58. Making mud pots or utensils and selling the same |
59. Working in nurseries, selling plants |
60. Rope making |
61. As conductors or helpers in private buses |
62. Carpet making |
63. Selling narcotics like smack, charas, ganja, marijuana and so on |
64. As beauticians (girls) |
65. As maid servants (girls) |
66. Pick pocketing, joining gangs |
67. Selling newspapers, magazines, edible goods, cleaning cars at red lights |
68. Making paper envelopes |
69. Replacing punctured tyres |
70. Printing on cloth |