Wednesday 3 August 2016

Amendment to the Child Labour Act



For how many decades India will be discussing the child labour problem ? many experts on child welfare point out that, the amendment to the Child labour Act  permitting children to work in family enterprises after school hours will have adverse effect on their mental and physical well being and the children from marginaised sections are in  danger of being deprived of both  the joys of childhood and their constitutional right to education . When this amendment gives legal sanction to work in family enterprises after school hours , when are these children supposed  to play, do home work, pursue their hobbies like reading or writing or painting or dramatics or music ? Are they built-up of iron  and hence  capable (after spending their mental energy in school for five to o six hours )of rendering physical energy in jobs in home run enterprises? What type of mental, physical, emotional and psychological development and personality development such children will have? Children are voiceless and  their rights can not be taken away cruelly through merciless amendment to Child Labour Act  .

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