Thursday, May 24, 2007

CHILD LABOUR





Ever visited restaurants, dhabas, and other small-scale shops where small children working to meet their ends meet.

Recently I read an article regarding child labour. In that a NGO released few children which were locked in an room where melting of gold and other things take place for making different gold jewellary. The fumes coming out are dangerous for our lungs. children work, live, eat and sleep in that fumes. They are locked in that room. They receive no fresh air as that place is devoid of any windows and ventilators. Isn’t there is a law that children below the age of 18 yrs are not allowed to work. Then why do people employ them just because they are cheap labour. Here the children were not even given any wages are it was a training (according to the owner) so they were only given food and space to live nothing else. (the children were imported from kolkatta )

Is it fair I know they do it to earn some money so that they and their family can have some food to eat. But isn’t it a crime employing them and treating them harshly. Ever witnessed the way they treat them???? Some would say that they work because they don’t want their mom to work. But isn’t it unfair for them that the age of going to school and building a nice future for themselves they indulge into all this jobs and play with their future. Is it right?
Not only they are ruining their career but also their health the people working in the cracker industry where they are to make crackers using the gunpowder the smell the fumes degrade their lungs and affect their respiratory track. The fumes they inhale are dangerous and can also lead to death.

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