Child Labour

Child Labour

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  • Date Submitted: 09/28/2013 10:26 AM
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CHILD LABOUR
"CHILD IS THE FATHER OF MAN" the famous lines by William Wordworth. It symbolizes the need of children in building a healthy nation and society. Childhood is the first stage after infancy. It is the most innocent phase in human life. But today many children, instead of spending it in a carefree and fun-loving manner while learning and playing, are scarred and tormented. Innocent children are employed by industries and individuals who put them to work under gruelling circumstances. They are made to work for long hours in dangerous factory units and sometimes made to carry load even heavier than their own body weight. They are physically tortured when they make a mistake. The children are at times made to starve and are given worn out clothes to wear. Such is the story of millions of children in India painful but yet true. In child labour children are made to do any work that harms or exploits them physically, mentally or morally. The two primary reasons for the ever-growing social malice of child labour are poverty and lack of education. India accounts for the second highest number of child labour after Africa. Bonded child labour is one of the worst types of child labour. It is estimated that approximately 10 million bonded children labourers are working as domestic servants and 55 million bonded child labourers are hired across various other industries in India. Among the industries, glass and bangle industry is estimated to employ around 60,000 children who are made to work under extreme conditions of excessive heat. An equal number are estimated to be employed in matchbox factories, where they are made to work over twelve hours a day, the carpet industry in India employs the largest number of children estimated to be more than four lakhs. Though eradicating the menace seems like a difficult and nearly impossible task, immense efforts have to be made in this direction. The efforts made by sections of the government, social workers, non-government...

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