CHILD LABOUR EVEN AFTER a YEAR, NOTHING HAS CHANGED Photos Have a Great Importance in the News
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Want to support Issue – 67 September, 2017 Support Price: 5 Rs Balaknama? ¸fc»¹f : 2 ÷Y´f¹fZ Give news lead and send in your suggestions and contributions to the given address – 31 Basement, Gautam Nagar, New Delhi – 110049 Ph. No. 011- 41644471 [email protected] World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children “Balaknama is the newspaper presented by Street and Working children themselves to ght for their own rights and problems because they are being completely ignored. CHILD LABOUR EVEN AFTER A YEAR, NOTHING HAS CHANGED Photos have a great importance in the news. Photo news is like a mirror, it makes everything very clear. ere is an evident medium of expression. Perhaps you all are aware that in India, the 1931 lm “AlamAra” was the rst talkie lm. In the earlier lms, only words (moviograms / signals) were used to express the views. Silent lms were used to be a thing in that era. For expressing expressions and feelings, photos are like a mirror. Let’s know the truth of the news by the medium of photos. Balaknama journalists performed a survey at various places Introducing their photos with the news SOME PICTURES OF SOUTHERN DELHI Location: Lajpat Nagar car parking, down the metro station bridge, Central Market Estimated number of child laborers: 310 Work: Selling balloons, selling threads (nada), Location: Nehru Place Market, Lalbatti, Park begging, rag pickers, working in a tea shop, working Estimated number of child laborers: 180 in a clothing store. Work: Selling toys, selling chargers and earphones, selling screen cards and dimple cards, selling water and selling foods, selling eatables. Location: Sarai Kale Khaan Fly Over, Bus stop, Rajapur Nagali, Nizamuddin Railway Station Estimated number of child laborers: 340 Work: To wash used utensils in the hotel, sell water and trash, begging etc Location: Kotla Fly Over Cardigan Estimated number of child laborers: 45 Work: Selling lotus, begging. Location: IIT Gate, Lalbatti, Fly Over, Park. Estimated number of child laborers: 37 Work: Selling toys, begging, car charger, selling Location: Lodhi Road, Saibaba Temple, Lalbatti Location: Batla House, Nao Park dexters of cars, selling bouquet. Estimated number of child laborers: 65 Estimated number of child laborers: 35 Work: Selling bouquet, begging, collecting slippers. Work: Carpentry, begging, working on Dhabas. continued on pg. 2 BALAKNAMA September, 2017 2 World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children SOUTHERN DELHI from page 1 SOME piCTURES OF WEST DELHI Location: Chosen Bhatti Location: Kamala Location: Kalkaji Temple, DDA Park, Metro Station, Basti Location: Mayapuri, Nehru Camp Lotus Temple. Estimated number of Lakkar Mandi Location: Shadipur Estimated number of Estimated number of child laborers: 135 child laborers: 36 Estimated number of Estimated number of child laborers: 14 Work: begging, working at the tea shop, selling toys, Work: working as child laborers: 156 child laborers: 15 Work: working at working at small shops. mechanic, working in Work: Making furniture, Work: Rag picking, Dhabas, working in bungalows (Kothi) sorting of sawdust working at the tea shop. furniture companies. Location: Jangpura Extension, N Block Park. Location: Jawahar Location: Balmiki Estimated number of child laborers: 21 Camp Camp Work: To set up Momos stalls, collect garbage from Estimated number of Estimated number of houses and junk from parks. child laborers: 21 child laborers: 24 Work: Work at Dhabas Work: Repairing work and in marriage parties. (mechanics), working in factories. Location: Old Delhi Railway Station, Khata. Location: Laurence Estimated number of child laborers: 64 Road, under the flyover Work: Begging, collecting junk, cleaning the train Estimated number of Location: Iron Mansion coaches with broomsticks, working as waiters in child laborers: 22 Estimated number of marriage parties. Work: Selling lemon- Location: Kanchan Basti child laborers: 24 chilli hangings (Nazar Estimated number of child laborers: 52 Work: Working on a battu), begging, rag Work: Collecting trash, Selling lemon-chilli piece rate, working in a In addition to the above mentioned places, there picking. hangings. hotel or dhaba. are some other places related to child labor. According to the estimated number, there must be According to the estimated number of West Delhi, about 125 such places in South Delhi such as: there may be approximately 110 such places as: Badarpur Border Bus Station, Subhash Camp, Bhat Basti, Zakhera, Mangolpuri, Shakurpur and Camp, Sansi Camp, Tughlakabad Metro, Jaitpur Murd, Shakurpur villages, Shakur Basti railway colony, Prahaladpur Chowk, Tehkhand, Sangam Vihar Auto Punjabi Bagh Club, Patel Nagar and Lalbatti, Ramesh Stand, Lal Kuan, Kabari Basti, Nizamuddin Dargah, Nagar, Shardapuri, near the Agarsen Hospital, ITO Lalbatti, Jama Masjid, Red Fort, Chandni Chowk, Wazirpur Depot, Sudarshan Park, Industrial Area, Paraththi street, near Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, Azadpur Mandi, Shahdara, Rajori Garden, Kirtinagar, Khanpur, Tigadi village, Moolchand Flyover, Defense Motinagar Flyover, Raja Gurden, 5/35 Jhugi Basti, Colony Flyover, Sarojini Nagar Market, BTT Lalbatti, RK Ashram Lalbatti, Jivalaheedi Markit, Peeragiri, Kailash Colony Ni Metro, Govindpuri Metro, Saket Madipur Lalb Ati, Jhandewalan Temple, Ashoka Metro, Window Expansion, Saibaba Temple, Cunat Park Metro Station, Delhi Cantt Railway Station, Place Mall, Palika Bazar, Aandan Vihar Railway Mansarovar Garden, Radhe Shyam Temple, Puppet Station, Mehrauli Jhugi Basti, Pusta Bhawan, Colony, Indralok, Rajdar Place, Indrapuri Railway Hanuman Mandir, Petty Market, Round Market, Station, Shahid Bhagat Singh Camp, Raghuvir Nagar, Rajiv Chowk, Trilokpuri, India Gate , Paharganj, Uttam Nagar East and West, NS P Mall and Basti, Sadar Bazar, New Delhi Railway Station, Bangla Sahib Prembari Bridge, Payal Cinema, PVR, Pandav Nagar, Gurudwara, Delhi Cantt. Lalbatti, Barapula, Bhopal Khayyala, Nagangloi, Premnagar, Sewa Nagar, Ice Market, Kashmiri Gate Bus Station, Babu Park , Zakir Hats behind Thirty Hajari Court, Sagarpur, Subh Nagar, scent park, Sonia Gandhi camp, Ali village, Agriculture City, Dabdi mode, Basidarapur etc. abused village trap garden, Lkkdpur etc. Number of estimated child laborers: 125x100 = Number of estimated child laborers: 110 x 100 = 12,500 11,000 Location: Nehru Camp Reporter: Shambhu, Deepak, Chetan, Jyoti and Estimated number of child laborers: 49 Talkative Reporter:Anil, Chandni & Reporter: Poonam Work: Juice stalls, picking junk, working as beldars. Chetan, Deepak BALAKNAMA September, 2017 World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children 3 SOME piCTURES OF NOida Location: Noida Sector 49 Location: Noida Sector 16 below the metro bridge, Estimated number of child laborers: 19 red light. Work: Working at a bicycle shop, working at a Estimated number of child laborers: 32 grocery shop, working in slipper’s shop. Work: Selling balloons, begging, showing games Location: Amrapali Sector 73, Sector 76 Estimated number of child laborers: 31 Work: To set up small shops, sell pans and tobacco (gutkha), collecting the iron and steel by digging the soil. Location: Sarfabad Jhuggi Location: Noida Sector 74, near Lalbatti Estimated number of child laborers: 16 Estimated number of child laborers: 14 Work: Working in the field, working in homes. Work: working on the dhabas, working at the sugarcane juice shop. Location: Chhailera Mkt, Sector 44 Estimated number of child laborers: 9 Work: Cutting bicycle tire-tube to collect iron, Location: Noida Sector 05, Near Petty Office washing utensils on dhabas. Estimated number of child laborers: 34 Work: To make buttons, working at the grocery shops. Location: near Noida Sector 18 park, in the market. Estimated number of child laborers: 28 Work: Fixing of the car, work in grocery or food shops. According to the estimated number, there are around 50 such places in Noida such as: Noida Sector 06 Market, Noida Sector 50 Under Metro Flyover, Noida Sector 24 Chaudda Village, Noida Sector 42 Jhugi, Noida Sector 40 Sadarpur, Noida Sector 44, Charela, Noida Sector 49 Baraula Slum, Noida Sector 53 Gejoda, Noida Sector 62 Depot, Noida Sector 65, Noida Sector 66 Mamura, Noida Sector 79, Noida Sector 84 Bhangel, Noida Sector 101, Noida Sector 104, Noida Sector 105, Noida Sector 106 etc. - Number of estimated child laborers: 50 x 50 = 2,500 Venue: Atta Market and outside the Mall, Ashok Location: Noida Sector 82, near the slums Nagar Estimated number of child laborers: 14 Estimated number of child laborers: 38 Talkative Reporter: Nawab, Sandeep, Majnu & Work: To set up shop of paan and gutkha, ragpickers. Work: Begging, rag picking. Reporter: Shambhu BALAKNAMA September, 2017 4 World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children SOME piCTURES OF MATHURA Location: State Bank Estimated number of child laborers: 14 Work: Working at the shop of utensils, working at the clothes shop. Venue: Mathura Railway Station and Settlement Estimated number of child laborers: 43 Location: Barric Basti Work: Selling gutka, picking junk, selling water, Estimated number of child laborers: 24 begging, brooming in train, and selling gram. Work: carting, shoe polishing Location: Ding gate and Mars market Estimated number of child laborers: 43 Work: Selling slipper, fery making. Location: Chowk Bazar Estimated number of child laborers: 32 Work: Work as mechanics, woring at shops and Dhabas. Location: Islam City Basti Estimated number of child laborers: 92 Work: making anklet, working at