One in these days I saw some child labourers, one was a house maid, the other one was a sweeper and the third one was doing a job of washing utensils and clothes in a restaurant. My heart brimmed with tears when I saw their condition. With a heavy heart when I asked them for why they didn't go to study, "Who will work and earn money for the livelihood of my family?" they said.

The ever increasing problem of child labour is not only cruelty against children but also a black spot on our nation's face. Though many countries boast of being superior from one another but in many of the developing countries like India, the problem of child labour is still prevalent.

People sell their children for money, they are treated as slaves. Population play a lead role in the rise of child labour. People should understand if giving birth to more children means more helping hands, it also means more mouths to feed. In large but illiterate families children are forced to work. They are badly exploited. They are given more and more work but are underpaid. Most of the times, the working conditions are hazardous which make them vulnerable to various health problems. Poor they are, their childhood which is the most happening phase of ones life is spent like this……

To control this problem, various measures should be strictly adopted not only by the government but also by the common man. The one who keeps a child as labourer should be strictly punished. Awareness programmes such as street plays or counselling of the poor and illiterate may contribute further.

“All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.”

I think most of us feel the same... Please make others also feel this and control child labour... Today the power lie in our hands, it is just we have to seek the right way to use it…