Child Labour

By Akash Joshi, (V)
John Martyn Memorial School

As we all know India is becoming a rich country. I, however, think we are still very poor as there are thousands of labourers in our country whose children have never entered a classroom. Whenever I see a child working in a ‘dhaba’ or a shop or as a labourer at a construction site, I wonder what the child thinks when he sees smartly dressed children going to school in their uniforms. Does the child envy those who attend school? Does the child wish his parents had money to send him to a school where he would learn, play and have fun? Does he think that if he was educated, he would one day make his family proud of him?
I really think our country is not democratic enough if every child does not get an education. Children are too young to work as labourers. Our country would progress much more with all children educated.