Working children in India are mostly engaged in hotels, building sites, factories & in houses as domestic servants.Manufacturing centers, match industry, coal mining industry, lock making factories, and carpet weaving concerns, match industry also diamond polishing industry, glass industry.
Provide great bulk of total population of working children in India.
Why factories employ children? Many children are employed by factory owners. These children have no union & they will never mobilize themselves to agitate against their employers for reasonable salaries & other allied amenities & for obvious reason, such unfortunate human species are being inhumanly exploited.
Working children are deprived of education & thus, their physical & mental growth is hindered. And Being ill fed and ill clad, unfortunately they fall victims to various diseases such as asthma & tuberculosis.Environments in which such species of humanity are nurtured, lead them inevitably to addiction to country liquor, tobacco.to ward off fatigue.
While framing Constitution of India, the makers did not forget give due emphasis on question of protecting rights of the working children. They said constitution distinctly envisages rights of children below fourteen years of age as fundamental rights to protect them.
The Article 24 of Indian Constitution reads thus no child below age of 14 years shall employed to the work in any factory or engaged in any other hazardous employment.
But, these laws are not sufficient to counter prevailing plight of working children. It is because mere legislation without simultaneous measures to implement them, does not work.Solution lies in social awakening coupled with honest bid of government to translate intended measures into reality.
It’s sad that for long time child labor has been in vogue in India. They are seen working at hotels & restaurants, factories and houses. Children are the automatic choice of employers. For, they work more but are underpaid.
Child labor presents grim picture of socio economic condition of alarge section of our population. In large overgrowing family, where there is hardly square meal day, young child is compelled to go to work to earn bread.
In my opinion Working under hazardous conditions they start living a life of perpetual unhappiness & frustration. It is tale of deprivation & longing.
Poverty, over population, parental neglect & social callousness turn them into child labors.
The engagement of child labor is heinous social offence. Only diseased society keeps up this evil practice. Children are born to live & bloom freely. Everyone should see to full expression of their potentials. For, what is done to children they will do to society’.
Child labor is threat to our society. The evil effects of Child Labor are given below:
Child labor is major hurdle in economic development of a nation.
A child, when engaged in the economic activities, is the deprived of proper education.
Child labor negatively affects health of the child. Engagement of children in factories & mines often leads to severe diseases. And This malpractice needs urgent attention.
These children are not able to enjoy their childhood.
A child who gets good social environment grows up to become good citizen, which in turn helps country to grow & develop.
Education of the masses will be very helpful to raise consciousness of general people. For this, mass media campaigns over radio, television, newspaper, internet.can be used.
Thanks to government, child labor ban act was passed. Let us not violate act. Let all children enjoy glory & beauty of childhood.
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It's so easy to advantage of the weak, the poor and the vulnerable who can't help or fight for themselves, isn't it? I'm saddened to hear that this “societal ill or misery” is accepted in your country or anywhere else in the world. Children = the future. Any country that hasn't figured out that equation will never get anywhere. The only thing worse than the cruelty of abusing children as laborers is turning young children into soldiers.