The child labours
I wish to bring your kind attention about a sadness, That is the real darkness below the bright day light, At dawn the factory buses have come like school buses, And picked up the sleepy children from the villages against birthright, The gates of the savage factories are closed sharply,
The children are sweating out in 10 to 12 hours shifts probably, They work under hellish working conditions calmly, For the meagre wages and the supplement income of the family, The children swallow the coldest curd rice like hungry frogs, which they bring with them from their poor homes, They are returned their home very late at 6 o'clock,
And the factory buses throw them in the rural zones, Out of a total force of 100000 in fireworks factories, Approximately 45000 are child labours, statistics tells, All of them are in the age group of 6 to 14 years like bees, And they are supposed to fill gunpowder into crackers well, Poor parents work in stone quarries and their children go to firework units, Child labour can lead to economic exploitation and slavery, It cuts children off schooling and health care like loses, Poverty and illiteracy makes the children as child labours fatally, Home based factories employ more children obviously, Although the numbers of child labours have been reduced slowly, The problem of the child labour still persists truly, Educate the parents and stop to employ children in factories fully.
Copyright © Balasubramaniyan Venkataramani | Year Posted 2024
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