Today's child is a citizen of tomorrow. The condition of a child foretells the future of any society or nation. Children are the real mirrors of the society.
With the dawn of the twenty first century one of the problems prevalent globally is the problem of child labour. Millions of children in the world have been forced into child labour owing either to non schooling or due to dropping out of the school at an early age.
Child labour may be defined as one who has not yet attained the age of fourteen years and whose physical, mental and social development has suffered due to his pre-mature employment. Due to various circumstances young children are exploited and are forced to forget the pleasures of childhood. At the age when children should be going to schools, they are burdened with the hardships of life. Even though child labour is illegal, large number of children are found working in factories and shops. Elimination of child labour is undoubtedly one the biggest challenges facing our country.
Government has been taking proactive steps to tackle this problem through strict enforcement of Child Labor Act, strengthening of primary education, improvement of economic conditions etc. The Government, media, NGO and also we ---- the common people have to unite to play their respective role in this demanding task....
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