World revolves around the children. Children’s future revolves around education

by JBM Global Teacher

Not all children in India are lucky to enjoy their childhood. The State of Child Workers in India report by UNICEF, based on the latest Indian census data, says the proportion of child workers in the 5-9 year age group jumped to 24.8 percent in 2011 from 14.6 percent in 2001. Child labor is an international concern because of its damages, spoils, and destroys and exploiting the future of the children.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together, and if we continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, we will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” The children are our hope and future of our nation, but millions of children are deprived in our country. The law of India says that for the child, below an age of 14 cannot employ in any factory and offices or restaurant. These rules come into the human rights for the children. Child labor “is being seen as something which is too difficult” to stop. ‘What is done to children, they will do to society’. Child labor is a major hurdle in the economic development of a nation.

A child, when engaged in economic activities, is deprived of proper education. Child labor negatively affects the health of the child. Engagement of children in factories and mines often leads to severe diseases. Child labor is very harmful for young ones in order to their physical, moral and mental development. Though many reasons are there for child slavery or child trafficking but survey says that main cause of child labor are high level poverty and lack of access to good education.

Development of the country is directly affected by this crime and child labor is a big reason of under-development of the country. A financially developed country provides all circumstances to its citizens that can help in making their new generations educated and healthy. Childhood is the biggest important phase of a child’s life and considered as an initial learning period for them which directly affects their future. Children require love, care, education, health, morals and financially secure future from their parents, and if a parent is not capable to give them such life; it gives rise to the “child labor”. UNICEF has been working to reduce and eliminate child labor using a combination of the following strategies:

• Reform of existing legislation, for example setting a minimum age for child labor that brings Policy coherence.

• Law enforcement to ensure the implementation of the Child labor Act.

• Expanding education access, improving quality and relevance of education, addressing violence in Schools.

• Awareness-raising and mobilization of families and communities against the exploitation of Children.

• Social protection programmes and cash transfers to improve the economic situation of families and to reduce the “need” to send children to work.

• Strengthening child protection systems, including the Integrated Child Protection Scheme and Implementation of Juvenile Justice Act

Working towards convergence between government departments to prevent child labor and rehabilitate existing child laborers.

Best Schools in Noida Expressway are doing their best to reach out to the masses to spread the awareness of child labor and rescue the one trapped in it. Child labor is not uniform. It takes many forms depending upon the type of work that children are made to do, the age and sex of the child and whether they work independently or with families. Due to this complex nature of child labor, there is no one strategy that can be used to eliminate it.

Education is a key to preventing child labor and has been one of the most successful methods to reduce child workers in India. This includes expanding education access to schooling, improving the quality and relevance of education, addressing violence in schools, providing relevant vocational training and using existing systems to ensure child workers return to school. Nursery and primary schools in Noida are working hard to give the best education to the children and let them know the importance of education.

The grim reality is that child laborer becomes adult even before the onset of adolescence. These working in fireworks factories set their lungs damaged at early age. Many turn to drugs, tobacco