🧒👶Child Labour🧒👶

Child Labour

 

Child labour is the practice of engaging the children in economic activity, on a part or full-time basis and has been the most important concern in the world because it affects the children both mentally and physically. It also destroys the future of children. The Child labour act, of 1986 defines a child as a person who has not completed the age of 14 years. Every child is considered 'a gift of god' it must be nurtured with care and affection by the family and society. India is one of the foremost countries in Asia that has 33 million children employed in various forms of child labour. There are many causes of child labour i.e. poverty, debts, professional needs, etc.

Let me explain some of them.

 

Poverty

In some developing countries, poverty is one of the major problems and the children were considered as helping hand to feed their families. If they don’t work they will die of poverty and hunger. Because of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment, parents are unable to send them to school. So first we should try to eliminate poverty in society.

 

 

Debts

The poor economic state of people in India forces them to borrow money. The literate seeks debt from money lenders during emergencies later they find difficulty in paying back the debts so debtors drag their children too in support of them so that the debts could be paid off. They require children to work for them and do many dangerous works with glass. So, debt is also another cause of child labour.

 

Conclusion

I would like to conclude by saying that the remedy is only in the hands of the government. It needs to take the necessary steps to get rid of poverty by giving employment to the parents of child labourers. It is necessary to educate children. The government should allocate the necessary funds to educate poor children. There are many laws and authoritarian departments for child labour. But, up till now, these are unproductive in controlling ongoing child labour. This is possible only with the support of all the sections of society and the law enforcement agencies.  The people’s focus should be on controlling the population of the country, educating the children and providing sufficient funds for its removal from the gross domestic product of India rather than the luxury of their own.

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