IMPLEMENT CHILD LABOR LAWS-THE NEED OF THE HOUR
July 19, 2008
The child labor is putting the child at risk forcing it to work in occupations that may pose health or life risk to it. The children are seen working long hours in fields with their parents or in factories to pay off the debts of their fathers and forefathers as bonded laborers. The children under the age of fourteen are currently employed in all such life threatening tasks. It has thus become imperative for the law enforcing agencies to implement the child labor laws.
DIRE CONSEQUENCES OF CHILD LABOR
The need to implement the child labor laws becomes more aggravating in the face of the detrimental effects of enforced labor on child laborers and exploitation by the employers.
To fully understand the horrors of the situation, let us consider the example of a child laborer working in 24 hour shifts in a textile factory. Now the child is getting exposed to all kinds of emissions be it soot, fly ash or the charcoal dust that is lining his lungs continuously. It is not that the adult workers have a respite. But at least they have a union, so they may get protective gear and sneak out in fresh air often while the health wise more vulnerable child may get no gear from the selfish employer who always employs underage children for more hands and more output with lowest wages. Even if the child constantly coughs and chokes with all kinds of respiratory disorders like bronchitis, asthma and tuberculosis on prolonged exposure. So if proper laws are enforced, the employer may be jailed for employing an underage child.
CHILD LABOR LAWS IN INDIA
In 1986, National Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act came into implementation which fundamentally barred the employers from engaging underage children in hazardous jobs detrimental to their health. Further in 1987, National Policy on Child Labor was formulated. Afterwards, the National Child Labor Project was undertaken to eradicate the poverty of the families of such children and giving the stipend to continue their education.
All the International Child Labor laws carry different specifications but all bar for employing little children and encourage erecting parallel support systems to discourage child labor.
So, the immediate aim of our society should be to eradicate child labor by strictly barring the employers from illegally employing the underage children in hazardous fields. Not only they face a plethora of health problems and no hope for education but they fail to get adequate compensation from the employers as they are not shown officially to be on roll. If enough law breakers are punished and such cases highlighted by the media and television channels, the implementation of child custody laws shall prove as a future deterrent to the scheming employees. A social awakening and uplifting the economic status of the children seem to be the only key.
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