Every child has a right to grow
and develop in a secure environment. However today this is not possible due to
ill-treatment of child labor. There are number of factors which are responsible
for child labor for example poverty, illiteracy, carelessness of parents,
ignorance, and cheap labor. Children who are forced into such illegal practices
are derived away from their social rights of education and schooling. People
those who force them into these practices are not necessarily the outsiders. An
uneducated and poor family might force the child into such unlawful act.
Child labor is not the end of
misery for a poor. Further on these children are vulnerable to crime like child
trafficking, abuse, illegal bondage and slavery. Child Laborers which are
working with coal, chemicals and mine industries are at risk of various
physical and mental injuries. It is said that if a child is working with carbon
and other elements for more than five hours a day then he/she is prone to life
threatening disease like asthma and bronchitis. When we talk about child labor
in India, social cultural cause is one of the major reasons that draw many poor
children into labor. In a country like India people are divided into
untouchable and tribal community systems. Such groups of people find it hard to
educate their family along with higher society because sometimes they are not
allowed to sit in a classroom or even if it is allowed the caste system creates
havoc in a society.
I do not know, how many rules
and regulation or acts or set of laws have been passed over to curb this
problem. But I will certainly say that here we need to stop and think. Think
whether we can tolerate if our own child is treated with similar kind of
disrespect. Never, it is indeed difficult for any parent even to imagine such
atrocity for their child. So why do we let such things happen. Can’t we raise
our voice? Have we become senseless? Is it extremely hard for us to hoist our
opinion? Answer to these questions will be ‘No’, but still we keep mum
over the situation.
“If we can’t take
it, we shall never let ensue it” this should be our motto toward the humanity.
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