A farmer with his elephant.	Most people in India are farmers earning their money from crops and animals. This man has an elephant. It helps him with his farm work.   Where there are lots of tourists elephants give rides to make money.	Giving elephant rides to the tourists.
A women working on a building site carrying cement on her head.	Thousands of people work in industry and factories. These women are working on a building site to earn extra money as well as running their homes. Look how they carry the things on their heads.	Women working on a building site carrying bricks on their heads.
Some people work for the government. Look at these police officers. They wear a uniform but it very different to the ones our police officers wear. Look at their bikes in the background.	Indian police officers ready to work.
		Some people run small businesses of their own. This woman is weaving. The thread could be used for clothes, sheets, carpets or mats. The people who make these things will buy the thread off her for a small amount of money.

Most boys in India practise working with their fathers so they can do the same job and most carry on with this job when their fathers stop.

Because the schools are better in India now than they were years ago and because technology is better there are lots more different types of jobs available.

Calcutta , a city in India, has the main rubbish tip for India. Thousands of people moved to Calcutta so they could go through the rubbish to find things to sell. So many people did this that they had to open a school for all the children who had moved there.