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| Legislations, Projects, Schemes fail to guarantee Children their childhood | | | Abodh Sharma
Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 15: Despite legislations, projects and schemes, lakhs of children in our state are deprived of their childhood and have to work in hazardous environs to earn two square meals for the family.
An act has been promulgated by the Government to prohibit child labour but the menace continues unhindered and uninterrupted in the state. The insensibility of authorities responsible to ensure that no child is subjected to work in his childhood can be gauged from the fact that most of the automobile workshops adjoining Labour Commissioner's office in Jammu have engaged children for menial works at meagre or no salary.
Visit a restaurant, a dhaba or a tea stall in the vicinity -children running errands and washing utensils, is a common sight. Civil society also has been callous in their responsibilities to stop accepting services from the children. Children continue to be employed as domestic servants, as rag pickers and even in hazardous brick kilns, but no officer or government agency has bothered to prevent these rag dealers from utilizing the services of the children in this job.
The child labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 was enacted by the Parliament of India thereby prohibiting the employment of children in hazardous establishments and to regulate the conditions of the work in non-hazardous processes and occupations. The enactment lays down the procedure for regulation as well as prohibition on the employment of the children in different processes/ occupations. It also provides for the penalties for the employment of children in violation of the provision of this Act. On the instance of Ministry of Labour, Government of India, survey was got conducted by the District Collectors through various departmental hands wherein 24235 children were found engaged in hazardous/ non-hazardous processes.
"Though the implementation of the Child Labour (R&A) Act, 1986 by the way of inspections, prosecutions remained satisfactory; but much could not be achieved in the work of rehabilitation of Child Labourers" said a senior Labour officer.
An Assistant Labour Welfare Officer mentioned that violation of this law by anybody has to pay penalty of Rs. 20,000 and many cases have been registered and they have been engaged in the slow criminal judicial process.
Recent initiatives like Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), S.O.S etc. have helped to curb the menace of child labour to an extent, but with impelling socio-economic compulsions and an insensitive outlook of the society towards the problem, lot needs to be done before substantial results could be achieved. |
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