The Evil Eye On Society

From various reports it has been found that India's economy is the fastest growing large economy in the world. The United Nations expects India's current population that is 1.3 billion will keep growing and surely surpass China by 2024. However, our country is prone to face obstacles. One of its major obstacle is Child Labour. Since I've been discussing about social evils, this matter should not go overlooked.

It is something that steals ones' childhood. We are all well aware of this matter and that it is a crime. Then why we as a human being always ignore these issues? Is it because that it doesn't bother us? Just imagine yourself, drifted away from Education by your parents to earn at the age when you were all a kid, going to schools, making friends. But one should know that when child labour creeps in, it is not only the child alone who endures but the society also gets affected as a whole. Children below poverty often get trapped into this is because they have no other options but to earn for their own survival, and children are employed because they are cheap and pliable to the end of the employer.

Other than that, there are some cruel practices of child labour that has been carried out particularly since the beginning of Industrial Revolution till today that one should notice. In some cases children are enslaved

labourers, who are forced to engage in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors, or in domestic services, eventually pushed into homelessness and living on the streets. Some of them are trafficked and are even enslaved in prostitution. These are all of the worst forms of child labour.

So what should be done to remove these social evils from our society? Firstly, Education is a key to prevent child labour and has been one of the most successful methods to reduce child workers. Children should be allowed to go to schools and socialize.

Today, child labour exists in many imperceptible forms. One often turns a blind eye to everyday incidents of child labour, such as the children working as hawkers, serving tea or as servants for work. Poverty is the most obvious reason why children work. However, a harsh reality is that some children are sold against their will and forced into servitude.

Child labour is a complex affair, as are the solutions, but the following steps must continue in order to see further progress. Firstly, child labour laws must be implemented. Another plan would be to reduce poverty in these areas so as to limit the need for children to be forced into these situations. Engaging in an NGO is another. At least we can come to a stop to refuse children to work for us. Slavery, child labour, child marriage, child sexual abuse and illiteracy- these things should have no place in a civilised society. The government should enforce the laws for child labour strictly. No problems will be solved if we go about ignoring such matters. We must take actions, we must involve to eradicate such practices. We must solve the problems. Could't we be the first to initiate it properly and decide to be the last to see lost childhoods and wasted potentials?