Child Labour: Nations Ignominy

The future of any country lies in the hands and minds of growing childrens. But wherein countries like that of ours if the childs hand is involved in menial jobs fighting a race for the survival and mind engrossed in dutifully doing the job so as to avoid the wrath of the owner. Then what future beholds for the country is a question that is equally posed in front of every Indian citizen. Out of 1 billion population around 12.6 million childrens are engaged in child labour. Most of them working in the food and hospitality service sector. Most of the childrens are forced to work for long hours and unhealthy environment that breeds high possibility of infecting themselves with diseases and moreover most terrible being the issue of physical abuse especially for the female child.
Despite being actively involved in UNICEF and other international organization in order to protect the childs right, Our country still is a home for the largest child labour in the entire world. Though its very obvious thats its the poverty that drives the parent to send there childrens to unhealthy and long working condition to make there daily meets end. Though there are plethora of laws and regulation passed by the government citing cases under which environ are child allowed to work. They have classified it as Hazardous and Non-hazardous, which require skill operation obtained after proper training like that of Rock breaking in mines, packaging at Fire Crackers Industry, Glass polishing and manufacturing and many more of even which im not aware of. But the Owner mindlessly recruit them for its a cheap investment in terms of wages they will be have to be paid.
Infact untill proverty breeds in the country, there is no way we can avoid such stigma blotting the country image. But the only solution that beholds such a situation in the enforcement of COMPULSORY and FREE primary education. This will ensure that the child has more oppurtunity to spend times in confined four walls learning to build his/her future, rather picking up rags and ruin the country future. A clear example being the state Kerala which has 100% literacy rate has only 1 in 100 children involved in child labour compared to 8 in 100 with the rest of country child labour distribution. Schemes like mid-day meal will also act as a bait to ensure that the child will attend schools. Though the law has been already enforced by the government quite a year ago. But the way it has to be implemented by each state government has really been the real bottleneck as it involves a huge investment. No doubt this mammoth project can never be single handedly run by the government. And its here in this context that the Non-Government organization plays an important role by bridging the gap that government fails to cash in. There are multitudes of such organization running across the length the breadth of the country. And its my earnest request to readers of this page in case you come across any such an organization please make a sincere effort in contributing any possible way that you can.
Lets remember the best we can do for the future of the mankind is leaving a society that is free of many such ignomious traits, that haunts the world. And if that involves contributing a mere fraction of our resources and our time. I hope thats the best that we can do for a bright future.
Dil Se.