1 ) Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
1. Majority of us are blessed because when we return home from offices, colleges and schools, there
is a family waiting for us which takes away our tiredness. But all are not that fortunate. Many
children in India are deprived of this feeling of family and home. We celebrate every occasion but
wonder how street children spend their life and celebrate festivals. They spend their entire life
near bus station, railway station, markets, on footpaths, street etc. Though a well-structured data
and number is not available but it is estimated that India has more than 4,00,000 street children,
the largest population of street children in the world.
2. Almost all the studies and surveys on street children point out that problem of street children is
an urban problem and directly linked to poverty , family disintegration, urbanization, inadequacy
of resources and growing population. But family violence is the major factor that forces these
children to leave their homes and make footpath their real home. This onsetsthe problem of child
labour. Homeless children end up doing hazardous jobs in factories, illegally employed in hotels,
canteens, restaurants, construction sites. Without family, they are often exploited by the
employers who abuse them and pay less wages.
3. Another most common job of a street child is of rag picking, selling newspaper and flowers on
traffic signals. They also get engaged in stealing, drug-peddling, extortion and robberies .They
develop a habit of chewing tobacco, drugs and smoking. Apart from this lack of education, poor
health, verbal abuse, psychological trauma, sexual exploitation are just to name.
4. Condition of girl children living a homeless life is even pathetic. They become prey of pimps and
then put into prostitution. The Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2007 revealed that
there are more than 3 million sex workers in India and 35.47% enter into this world before the
age of 18 years.
5. NGOs and few organizations do work to rehabilitate the street children in India. Rehabilitation of
street children is must to overcome this problem and such initiatives are very good because these
work at ground level. India should come up with more such initiatives and campaigns so as to give
a home and happiness to every child of India. Moreover, parents must work towards the better
life and upbringing of their children instead of just giving birth.
Q. 1.1On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer any 3(three) ofthe following in 30-40 words
each:
(i) Who are not blessed and how?
(ii) Why do the children leave their homes?
(iii) What are some of the jobs done by street children?
(iv) How are the street children treated?
Answers
Answer:
family members
because they were in poor
begging
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