Since almost 3 weeks there is officially a law banning child
labour in India. At first it sounds one of the most promising thing
done in a country with the population of 1 billion of which more than
half of them are under 25. But this ban doesn't solve the problem lying
beneath one of many series of such acts against children. Like most of
the human rights defined according to the standard of living in present
Europe weaving blind eye to the situation in the same geographical
place few years ago, which to some extent still persists in backyards
of India hidden behind the facades of glittering cities. This ban would
be simply snatching the bread from the mouth of not only the children,
but their parents and the whole family dependent on the wages of their
offsprings. Child labour is neither the problem of implementation of
law, general understanding towards young clads, nor pure social
economics, but rather it is very subtle social problem. Child labour
should not be understood at hatred of the parents towards their
children, rather it is dark necessity, which force them to send their
children to work. There are many innovative solutions, like the
provision of free food in the school and other socio-economic
initiatives, where both, the family and a child, benefits, although the
100% implementation of which is argumentative question, but these
schemes helps few of them, a usual problem of very huge country. In
this country, no proper digital record of any sort of work is kept, of
course, outside urban areas, which leads to many mischievous acts
against common worker, which is worst, when it comes to children. This
can be controlled through law, but the real problem of impoverishment
cannot be solved. Indians cannot belong to just one culture. It is like
pure indian spices, each having discreet taste and smell. The same is
true with the mentality of the people in different geographical
locations of rural India. All those innovative initiatives apart from
the pure universal law should be matched with different realities and
designed such way to solve the real social problem from within, if the
government is not able to create a cushion of job opportunities for
elder family members. If government and NGO can provide and, of course,
guarantee the education as well as employment to children, though the
children not having certain pleasure of urban kids, these children when
grown-up can make difference to their family and their own children in
the future as well. But my own pressing point would be the creation of
huge database of working population electronically, in fact,
prestigious indian IT industry is capable and willing to do that. What
remains to be seen is whether the cabinet is ready for it.
labour in India. At first it sounds one of the most promising thing
done in a country with the population of 1 billion of which more than
half of them are under 25. But this ban doesn't solve the problem lying
beneath one of many series of such acts against children. Like most of
the human rights defined according to the standard of living in present
Europe weaving blind eye to the situation in the same geographical
place few years ago, which to some extent still persists in backyards
of India hidden behind the facades of glittering cities. This ban would
be simply snatching the bread from the mouth of not only the children,
but their parents and the whole family dependent on the wages of their
offsprings. Child labour is neither the problem of implementation of
law, general understanding towards young clads, nor pure social
economics, but rather it is very subtle social problem. Child labour
should not be understood at hatred of the parents towards their
children, rather it is dark necessity, which force them to send their
children to work. There are many innovative solutions, like the
provision of free food in the school and other socio-economic
initiatives, where both, the family and a child, benefits, although the
100% implementation of which is argumentative question, but these
schemes helps few of them, a usual problem of very huge country. In
this country, no proper digital record of any sort of work is kept, of
course, outside urban areas, which leads to many mischievous acts
against common worker, which is worst, when it comes to children. This
can be controlled through law, but the real problem of impoverishment
cannot be solved. Indians cannot belong to just one culture. It is like
pure indian spices, each having discreet taste and smell. The same is
true with the mentality of the people in different geographical
locations of rural India. All those innovative initiatives apart from
the pure universal law should be matched with different realities and
designed such way to solve the real social problem from within, if the
government is not able to create a cushion of job opportunities for
elder family members. If government and NGO can provide and, of course,
guarantee the education as well as employment to children, though the
children not having certain pleasure of urban kids, these children when
grown-up can make difference to their family and their own children in
the future as well. But my own pressing point would be the creation of
huge database of working population electronically, in fact,
prestigious indian IT industry is capable and willing to do that. What
remains to be seen is whether the cabinet is ready for it.
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