Child Labour in India: An Unavoidable Dilemma
Outline:-
* Meaning of child Labour
* Reasons of increase in India
* Role of the government of fight against child labour.
* NGO's important role.
* Some suggestions to do away with this problems.
* Ensuring foolproof low for education.
* New law passed.
Childhood is consider to be the golden period of one's life but this doesn't hold for some children who struggle to make their both end meet during their childhood years . At a tender age , which is supposed to be an age of playing and going to school , they are compelled to work in factories, industries , offices or as domestic helps. Child labour means employment of children in any kind of work that hampers their physical and mental development, deprives them of their basic educational and recreational requirements . It is a blot on our society and speaks volumes about the inability of our society to provide a congenial environment for the growth and development of the children
Earlier, the children used to help their parents in agricultural in agricultural practices such as sowing, harvesting, reaping and taking care of cattle etc. But industrialisation and urbanisation have in a way encouraged child labuor. Children are employee in hazardous etc. In the bidi rolling , cracker industry, pencil , matchbox and bangle making industries etc. In the bidi industry, children are expected to perform all the chores of rolling , binding and closing the ends of bidis using their nimble fingers. The cracker industry poses threat to the lives of the children due to their make the child susceptible to different respiratory problems and lung, cancer , in the worst cases . Besides , children are employed as labourers in the garment , leather , jewellery and sericulture industy.
A number of other factors could be attributed to the rise of this menace. In the poor and lower strata families, children are considered to be an extra earning hand . These families have a conviction that every child is an earner so, more the number of children . The children are expected to shoulder their parents' responsibilities. Parental illiteracy is also one of the contributors to this problem. Education tends to take a backseat in the lives of these children . The uneducated parents consider education as an investment in comparison to the returns which they get in the form of earning of their children . The child labourers are subjected to unhygienic conditions, late working hours and different atrocities which have a direct effect on their cognitive development . The young and immature minds of the children find it difficult to cape with such situations leading to different emotional and physical problems. Employers also prefer
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