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Arjun turned 15 years and 3 months last month and works at a Pune restaurant. Under the definitions in the Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, he is best described as:

Arjun is an adolescent. The Act defines an adolescent as a person who has completed fourteen years of age but not eighteen. At fifteen years and three months he falls within this band, so he is not a child and not an adult under the Act.

  1. AA child, because he has not completed eighteen years
  2. BAn adolescent, because he has completed fourteen but not eighteen yearsCorrect
  3. CAn adult, because he has completed fourteen years
  4. DA child, because he has not completed sixteen years

Explanation

Section 2 defines an adolescent as a person who has completed the fourteenth year but not the eighteenth. Arjun is 15, so he is an adolescent. Calling him a child is wrong because a child is below fourteen (or the age under the RTE Act, whichever is more).

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