Indian Future On Street 

Children are the future of the country and what happens to our children today determines what happens to our country tomorrow.  There are many quotes as such have been made by the people for prevention of child labour in India but all of no use. Sometimes the situation here force me to rethink, whether child labour is really a punishable crime. Around 12 million children are engaged in some hazardous occupation on part or full time basis in India. Child labour not only deprives them from their childhood and education but also are harmful to their physical and mental development. Most of the children involved in child labour are aged 4-15 years old. At the age when there should be book and copies in their hands and school bags on their back, they are carrying bags of dirt on their back. Children often remain unpaid for their work and work under dangerous condition which is totally illegal in India. Children are being exploited every moment and beaten up sometimes by their master for a silly mistake in their work. Children work in firework manufacture industry, coal mines etc., where they are always in a worse condition and anything can happen to their life anytime. 

Child labour is getting terrible time to time. Instead of decrease in number it is increasing day by day. Last month 20 cases of child labour was found. Many small girl child are forced into sex trafficking in a very small age. It is stated that 22,000 children die because of the accident occurred in the work place. They also face cruelty, beating, violence, humiliation and sexual abuse from the employers and many other kind of brutality. 

The main reason behind their condition is poverty,unemployment, lack of proper education, social apathy and tolerance of child labour. Government is not at all serious about these issues, beside various child labour acts, laws and many NGOs working on the issue, still it has not been controlled instead its growing day by day. Every kind of data is being send to the government every year, is government unknown to these facts or have just closed their eyes for these poor child. Only giving some charity in not enough for them, they something more than charity thing. Government needs to put more effort to control child labour by providing them proper access to schools, education. Impossible is nothing and together we can do it, so lets do it.

                                                                Sonalika