CHILD LABOUR
PAWAN KUMAR VERMA
India’s Future in Threat
Whenever
we leave our house and taken a stroll
around , if we try to notice, we can easily see young children engaged in
laborious works. The child may e a rickshaw puller, a girl working in a mill a
boy working at a tea-stall or some chhotu working as a domestic help at one of
our neighours house. Most of them are famished and overworked, and there seems
to e no hope of getting their childhood back to them.
Child
labor refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children
of their childhood , interferes with their ability to attend regular school and
that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous, and harmful. It is
such a pity to learn that according to a census, India has one of the largest
population of child labourers.
The law on
Indian soul says that any child below the age of 14 cannot be employed either
in a factory or office or restaurant. In fact, India's international business
has been severely affected in many cases because child labourers, have been
used at some stage or the other in manufacturing, packaging and transport of
those items. However , laws are seldom enforced or followed in India.
In India,
working children are engaged in different organisation and unorganized sectors,
both in rural and urban ares. In rural sector, children are engaged in field
plantations, domestic jobs , forestry , fishing and cottage industry. In urban
sector, they are employed in houses, shops, restaurants, smalls and large
industries, transport, communication , garages etc. In India, working children
are also self employed as newspaper boys , mild boys, shoeshine boys, rage
pickers ,rickshaw pullers etc About 78.71 % of child workers are engaged in
cultivation and agriculture, 6.3 % are employed in fishing, hunting and
plantation, 8.63 % in manufacturing, processing , repairmen house
industry,etc,, 3.21 % in construction, transport,l storage, communication and
trade, and 3.15 % bin other services. At the time when they should be
exploring things around them, they are exploited for selfish gains.
For much of
human history and across different cultures, children less than 17 years old
have contributed to family welfare in a variety of ways, In India , poverty is
the biggest cause of child labour. Parents are forced to engage their children
in labour as it bring them more money.
In
factories and other establishments, children are employed because they are form
of cheap labour and can work for hours on meager wages. Also in rural and
impoverished parts of the country, children have no the real meaningful
alternative.
When
schools and teachers are unavailable and poverty is abject. Child labour is the
eventual result. Children work, instead of going to school, remain illiterate
which limits thir ability to contribute to their own well being as well as to
the community they live in .
We tend to
forget the fact that a child is meant to learn, not to earn and Child
Labour is nothing but child Abuse. So
for a better Nation, we must stop child exploitation.
Realizing
the effects of child labour , one can easily conclude that not only does it
deeply destroy the tender age of childhood but also undermines the economic
prosperity of the entire country. Children employed as Lavoisier do not form a part of skilled workforce.
Hence,
child labour must be banned at any cost. In 2013 , the Punjab and Haryana Hight
Court gave a landmark order that directed that age of 14 years , be it
hazardous or non hazardous industries. However, mere passing of laws is not
going to help; we have to eye on every miscreant. It is, therefore, the duty of
every citizen to discourage such incidents and report them wherever possible.
Awareness about the issue can do wonders to improve the current sorry state.
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