Question

write a letter to the editor of a newspaper describing the plight of children who are victims of the Social evel of child labours and
the need to uplift them.​

Answer 1

Examination Hall

Hisar, Haryana

Date: 29th October 2018

The Editor

The Times of India

New Delhi

Subject: Problem of Child Labour

Respected Sir,

Through this column of your esteemed newspaper, I would like to draw the attention of the concerned authorities and people of India towards the social evil of child labour in our society. It refers to the employment of children in any industry or work, especially when illegal or considered exploitative. They are hired for work easily because child labour is available at very low wages. Poverty is the major cause of child labour. Poor parents send their children to work so that they can earn their livelihood themselves since they do not have enough money to fulfil the necessities of their children. It deprives children of their childhood and is very harmful to their physical and mental development. No healthcare facilities are available to them. They have to work for long hours to support large families.

Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 bans the children whose age is below 14 years to work in any industry or business. But it is not being followed by the people of India. To eliminate child labour from the society, the government of India has to make strict laws and regulation and ensure its implementation in every region and industry including domestic help. People should be made aware of this social evil. Everyone should make sure that he does not employ any child in any work.

I hope this letter will prove to be an eye-opener to the concerned authorities and society.

Thanking you,

Yours sincerely

Megha

Answer 2

Child labour issues and challenges

Kalpana Srivastava

Additional article information

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

– Nelson Mandela

Children are future citizens of the Nation and their adequate development is utmost priority of the country. Unfortunately, child labor engulfs children across the world. The world is home to 1.2 billion individuals aged 10-19 years. However, despite its menace in various forms, the data shows variation in prevalence of child labor across the globe and the statistical figures about child labor are very alarming. There are an estimated 186 million child laborers worldwide. The 2001 national census of India estimated total number of child labor aged 5–14 to be at 12.6 million.[1] Small-scale and community-based studies have found estimated prevalence of 12.6 million children engaged in hazardous occupations. Many children are “hidden workers” working in homes or in the underground economy.[2] Although the Constitution of India guarantees free and compulsory education to children between the age of 6 to 14 and prohibits employment of children younger than 14 in 18 hazardous occupations, child labor is still prevalent in the informal sectors of the Indian economy.[3] Child labor violates human rights, and is in contravention of the International Labor Organization (Article 32, Convention Rights of the Child). About one-third of children of the developing world are failing to complete even 4 years of education.[4] Indian population has more than 17.5 million working children in different industries, and incidentally maximum are in agricultural sector, leather industry, mining and match-making industries, etc.[5]

The term “child labor” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical-mental development. It refers to work that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children, and interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work. The statistical figures about child workers in the world have variation because of the differences in defining categories of age group and engagement of children in formal and informal Sector.

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