Let them live their Childhood ....Stop Child labor !!

Child labor is serious problem in many parts of the world, especially in developing country like India. Labor is defined as physical or mental work especially of the hard or fatiguing kind. Child labor usually means work that is done by children under the age of 15, which restricts or damage their physical, emotional,   intellectual, social or spiritual growth as children. In India there are approximately 60 to 115 million child laborers. Most of the child Labors work in agriculture field but most organizations focus on the bonded laborer in the cities. In bonded labor creditors lend money to the parents and exchange a child labor. The labors are extremely cheap in India and children wages is less so children work until the loan can be paid off in the lump sum amount. Their labor never ends as the wages the get are very less as compare to loan amount.

Main reason of their child labor is poverty and lack of proper education. Families need money to survive all the member work including children. They don’t get education and become illiterate. From working since age of four or five to fifty or sixty they wear down their bodies and die passing their debts to their children.

Media should expose the business or firm who violent the laws and employee child labor. Government should provide monetary & non – monetary help to peoples below poverty line. These will help poor people and their children can go to school for education.  

NGOs can play important role in elimination of child labor as govt. does not have the infrastructure to reach every section of the society and particularly the remote area.