CHILD LABOUR
Child labour is,
generally speaking, work by children that harms them or exploits them in some
way (physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking their access to education).
Childhood is the most innocent
phase in human life. It is that stage of life when the human foundations are
laid for a successful adult life. Many children, instead of spending it in a
carefree and fun-loving manner while learning and playing, are scarred and
tormented. They hate their childhood and would do anything to get out of the
dungeons of being children and controlled and tortured by others. They would
love to break-free from this world, but continue to be where they are, not out
of choice, but force. This is the true story of child labor.
The two primary reasons for the ever-growing
social malice of child labor are poverty and lack of education. Poor parents
give birth to children thinking them as money-making machines.
They carry infants to earn more on the streets from begging. Then as they grow they make them beggars, and eventually sell them to employers. This malady is rampant across the length and breadth of India.
Poverty, lack of good schools and growth of
informal economy are considered as the important causes of child labour in
India.
children in India were in a hazardous or unsafe jobs. UNICEF estimates that India with its
larger population, has the highest number of laborers in the world
under 14 years of age, while sub-Saharan African countries have the
highest percentage of children who are deployed as child labour.
Now is the time to join hands
and stand up like a mountain, to fight this so that INDIA can once again be
called a GOLDEN SPARROW
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