- what good is this Act for the common man?
- Ten years from now, is life going to be better or worse for the hundreds and thousands of children from low class income and below poverty line?
- How many lives have improved with this Act?
- Does this Act really help the needy or it just satisfied a few so called intellectuals' appetite for a change with no real benefit to the society?
In 2007, the Ministry of Women and Child Development reported the presence of over 3 million female sex workers in India, with 35.47 percent of them entering the trade before the age of 18 years. Human Rights Watch puts the figure of sex workers in India at around 20 million, with Mumbai alone being home to 200,000 sex workers, the largest sex industry centre in Asia. The number of prostitutes rose by 50% between 1997 and 2004. Child prostitution is a major problem in India involving around 1.2 million children.
The above is an extract from the internet. Just one of the issue the country is facing. Coming to the point in hand, Child Labour Act, can the above menace of the society can be stopped by this Act?
Just walking on the streets and standing among the now the children on the roads, one can clearly see why this Act should not be around.
In my small personal experience itself I have witnessed how girls being taken away from their secured domestic jobs. The jobs which made them live with honour and dignity. They might have worked hard day and night. But they slept without fear.
Why not bring an Act which restricts child birth? No excess mouths to feed, no challenge of money and no child labour!
Why not make education compulsory so that all the children who are thrown on streets have something to do instead of roaming around the streets and trying out drugs and becoming petty thieves!
Why not
Why not
Ladies and Gentlemen of the educated creed of social justice, understand the issue indepth and then fight for any cause.
