Recently you happened to visit the glass factories of Firozabad and saw the miserable condition of workers and specially children working there.As Chetan/Chetna, the reporter of The Tribune' write a report on the same.
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20th Sep. 20xx, situated in close proximity, to Agra, Firozabad homes to more than 1000 glass
workshops, factories and industries employing more than four lakh labourers. Since decades, this
small scale industry has manufactured, supplied and exported everything and anything pertaining to glass.
The labourers work in miserable and unhygienic conditions. The pollution caused during
manufacturing of glass products causes chronic bronchities. The workers are exposed to immense
heat and sound for which they are not provided any protective eye gears which often results in
accidents.
A good number of employed labourers are women and children. Women work in worse conditions.
They are usually employed in factories to clear the molten glass that falls around the furnaces. The
wages paid are very low and no maternity leave is given to them. Children are employed in packing
and sorting work in factories. About 50,000 children below the age of 14 work in this industry. This
is one of the highest concentration of child labour in the world. If child labour is eliminated,
production in glass and bangle industry would go down by 25%. About 85% of the children are
employed in carrying molten glass on a seven-foot rod. They sit in front of furnaces where
temperature is about 700 degree centigrade. Continuous exposure to high temperature harms their
health permanently. Chidren are forced to forgo their education and assist their parents. Over 1
lakh out of 4 lakh workers work from home but then they do not get the benefits of welfare
schemes.
The pitiable state of the workers especially children working in glass factories in Firozabad should be
effectively worked out.
Chetan Lunia
Reporter
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