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The child labour’s contribution is significant in rural India. In rural areas we find paid child labour and unpaid child labour. Paid child labour who works outside family gets payment for their work. Unpaid child labour who works in agriculture, do household chore and takes care livestock do not get payment as they work in their own household. So the rural child labour are contributing either in terms of cash or agriculture work or domestic work or Livestock management work to their family. After studying 403 child labour in rural areas of Koraput district it was found that 70% of the paid child labour contributes 20% or more of family income in the form of cash.50% and more of household domestic work is contributed by 69.5% of domestic child labour in their own family. And 66.7% of child labour who are doing cattle herding of their own family contributes 100% livestock management work.