This is also a National Duty.

June 12, 2021

“Child labour perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems”.

- Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi

We would have encountered little children, being great achievers, worldwide. We always have had fascinations of kids at our home to attain such excellence. We would dump them with training camps and skill development classes, which make the kids suffocating and might deplete their energy and inborn abilities.

What else we would furnish our kids with, to make them appreciable before society? There will be endless answers. But what about the kids serving you as newspaper boys, home helps, magazines and tea sellers running between the railway lines and around bus stations?

People will always voice their opinions to create and spread awareness by words that would make society a better place to live. But when it comes to action, almost everyone fails miserably. People realise it very late that one small reaction would reflect as a magnificent change.

There might be a lot of justifications for juvenile employment. But it could not be ratified for undermining the life, dreams and future of the victim as well as the country. India doesn’t lack any institutions and welfare organisations but yearns for fellow human beings with a golden heart.

Child labour could not be shrunk into a narrow range of household and industrial works. A lot of children, chiefly 14-17 years of age are employed in jobs that are labelled hazardous. Illegal trafficking of children serves as a bigger reason for this.

The source of constructing a powerful nation with a proportional and independent economy lies in the state of well-being of its citizens. Eventually, the juveniles and youngsters are the future citizens of the nation. Child Labour won’t contribute to the Economy but upgrading the young community will.

People, individually, are not terrified or careless. They are insecure that they are not backed by the people around them, which makes them feel that it is not their cup of tea. Hence, it is our obligation to raise and educate children and make them conquer their dreams which would turn out to be a national credit.