Question

Explain the plight of child labour working in fire cracker industries​

Answer 1

Answer:

Despite campaigns like Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the employment of children in firecracker units is rampant, endangering their health and lives.

What is the one image that comes to your mind when I say the word ‘Diwali’?

For most, it is lights, festivities, and celebrations.

However, Diwali is not the same for everyone. On one hand, we burst crackers to celebrate the victory of good over evil, on the other hand, we are guilty of propagating a major social evil — child labour.

Bursting firecrackers is the same as burning the childhood of the children who die due to accidents and inhuman working conditions in firecracker factories.

Local governments say that child labour has been curbed and is now at less than one percent of all employment. Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize awardee disagrees. He claims that more than a lakh children are employed in factories producing firecrackers — not just in Tamil Nadu, but also in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Assam.

It was in 1991 — when Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) initiated the first ‘anti-firecracker campaign’ —the plight of children involved in the manufacturing of firecrackers came to fore. 10,000 schools and about six to seven million children were sensitized during this drive.

The slogan raised during the campaign was ‘Deep jalakar Diwali banaye, bachpan jalakar nahin’ (Light a lamp to celebrate Diwali — don’t burn a childhood). It was a consumer campaign where the injustice meted out, to the children employed in these factories, was depicted by dipping firecrackers in water.

Answer 2

Answer:

Child labours are prone to country’s growth and economy and our constitutional against the child labours.

Explanation:

Fire cracker industries are flourished in India especially Southern Tamilnadu plays a vital role in the fire crackers manufacturing and exporting. Many fire crackers industries are employable to the children because of lower wage and the children parents also supported it because of their livelihood support. Fire crackers are toxic to human beings and unsafety industries to children. Article 24 prohibits child labours in any factory, mining and hazardous industries but in reality its cannot be possible in many circumstances.