Question

Summary on children at work ncert book

Answer 1

Velu is a eleven year old child who runs from home and reaches Chennai Central in Kanyakumari Express without a ticket. Without any money to buy ticket, he travels in the train, but luckily the Ticket collector doesn't come to the compartment he is sitting in. he tries to sleep near the door of the train, but a group of men playing cards there, make it impossible for him to do so. Lack of sleeplessness makes him feel tired and exhausted, as he is empty stomach and has eaten only peanuts and jaggery from the last two days. He is then awakened by a noise and when open his eyes sees a girl of his age standing in front of him. The girl wears a long baniyan till her knees. Her hair was stiff and brown, and she had a rack on her shoulders. She was picking dirty plastic cups from the floor and stuffing it in the rag. The girl asks Vellu's name and asks him if he has run away from home. But Vellu doesn't trust a stranger with his secrets and get beaten by his father. His father was a drunkard, and abused his children, and also spent all the money in drinks earned by the children.
The girl asks Vellu about his plans, and doesn't get an answer. Hunger starts pinching vellu, and the girl offers him some food.
When the sun rose Vellu's feet burned with the glaring of the sun and he was soaked with sweat. His mind reeled over food, and they stopped before a big building which was an auditorium. There was an wedding going on there and the name of the bride and the groom was written in outside. The girl asks Vellu to come inside, and Vellu becomes nervous by seeing the huge venu and inquires whether they would be eating there. 
The girl leads him towards the backyard of the hall where a huge garbage bin overflows with rubbish, wherein two goats stand fighting over a banana leaf, and the girl picks up a squashy banana and gives it to Vellu for eating. 
Vellu then remarks that the houses in the village appear to be strange as they are made of mud and palm leaves. 
The girl Jaya, goes around one of the huts and dumps her sack and picks up an empty one. She then throws a pair of old shoes towards vellu, hands him over a sack as hers and asks him to come with her.
Vellu is a little confused by the work he has been assigned with, as he had only worked on a landowner's farm, weeding and grazing cows. puzzled Velu asks if there were any farms in the city, to which Jaya replies that there are no farms in the city and they were rag pickers.
Vellu had never done such a thing and is very skeptical about picking rubbish. jaya then explains Vellu that they will only be picking paper, plastics and glass bottles, and Vellu becomes even more confused when he knows that they are to sell these things to Jam Bazaar Jaggu. he enquires Jaya as to hy the person is ready to buy the rubbish and who the person was, to which she replies that Jaggu would sell the items to a factory. 
Jaya feels that Vellu is wasting time thinking about whether to do the job or not, but Vellu is adamant about doing such a job of picking up garbage.


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Answer 2

Answer:

Children are made to work and earn in different ways. Some of them help their family make a livelihood. Many run away from unhappy homes and they need to support themselves. They don’t go to any school.

Velu was an eleven year old boy. He ran away from home because his father was addicted to drinking. He used to beat him and his sister and snatched whatever they earned.

The Kanyakumari Express pulled in at Chennai Station. Velu got down and sat on a bench. He had never before seen so many people with their luggage. The noise was terrible. He was feeling tired, miserable and hungry. In his bundle he carried a shirt, a towel and a comb. He had neither money nor ticket. He tried to sleep on the floor near the door. He heard the rough voice of a girl around his own age. The girl was carrying a big bag. She was picking up plastic cups and putting them into the sack. Her name was Jaya. She sat down next to him. She said she could find some food for him to eat. She stood up to go. Velu had nowhere else to go. So he ran after her.

The two got to the road. Smoke and dust made Velu’s head spin. The girl dragged him to the other side of the street. She took him on to a bridge. Velu peeped over the railing. The road under him ran to the city. Velu saw big buildings in the distance. Jaya warned him not to get caught otherwise he would be in jail. His bare feet burned on the hot tar road as he walked.

They finally stopped in frcfnt of a big building. A marriage was going to be performed inside. Behind the hall was a garbage heap. The girl picked up a crushed banana and a vada which Velu ate unwillingly. He felt better. Then the girl went to home to drop her full bag and get another one. Velu also joined her.

Jaya and Velu walked along the roads and came to a bridge across a dirty drain. They came to a row of huts built out of wood, plastic and sheets. It was Jaya’s village. She dumped her sack there and gave him a pair of old shoes, a sack and stick. He wondered what work she wanted him to do. She told him that they were rag pickers. They collected things from rubbish bins-paper, plastic and glass. It was sold to Jaggu, a junk dealer. Velu had no option. He decided to work as a rag picker until he found a better job.