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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 the store of vegetables, working at the junk shop. Location: Holy Gate Estimated number of child laborers: 21 Work: Working at the tea shop, working at the furniture store.
Children put their thoughts • A 13 years old girl, Diya said, “I have worked as a rag picker at railway stations, bus stands and in markets. We children don’t have any respect in Location: Mosque gate this type of work that is why I want that people Estimated number of child laborers: 22 should not hate us and should see us with love Work: selling slippers, selling sil-batta(kitchen like other children and should also respect us.” equipment). Location: Daresi Road • A 14 years old girl, Rakhi said, “Children like us Estimated number of child laborers: 34 don’t have any proper area to live that is why we Work: Making the crown of God, making an anklet wander here and there with our families. I want that government and normal public should help us so that we don’t have to wander.” According to the estimated number of Mathura, • Telling about him, a 15 years old boy, Ajeet said, there are about 50 such places, such as: “We want that our parents should also get some work and money so that we can also live properly Birla Temple, Bhuteshwaraya New Radheyam and don’t have to wander.” Colony, Manishpuram, Sukhdev Nagar, Nitin Vihar, Nabhanit Nagar, Kankor, Khatik Mohalla, Old Mandi, • A 16 years old girl, Rizbana said, “We all chil- Badhpura, Keshavdev Katta etc. dren have a dream to study like other children but as we don’t have any ID proof, we are not eligible Number of estimated child laborers: 50x50 = 2,500 to take admission in any school that is why we children want that we should also get admission Location: Bhima Municipal Market in schools without any ID proof so that we can Estimated number of child laborers: 21 Talkative Reporter: Deepak, Laxmi, Mukesh & also study for our bright future.” Work: Working at shops, working at Dhabas Reporter: Shambhu BALAKNAMA September, 2017 World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children 5
Some pictures of Agra
Location: Jagdishpura Location: Bilouchpura Location: Rasulpur Estimated number of child laborers: 76 Estimated number of child laborers: 26 Estimated number of child laborers: 65 Work: working in small shops, like tea stall or selling Work: Doing sewing work, working in factories, Work: To make design on Payals (anklets), sell in the clothes in the market. selling clothes in the market. market.
Venue: Prithanthatha Location: Lalgarh Location: Azampada Estimated number of child laborers: 32 Estimated number of child laborers: 42 Estimated number of child laborers: 72 Work: Prepare a piece, working in a shoe factory. Work: Supplying water, selling gambling material. Work: Selling the idea of lemon-pepper, begging Brothers left him in worst situations, results in Sameer working as a Child labor
Talkative Reporter Sameer and Reporter Poonam
This story is about a 12 years old boy, Sameer, who left his school and got indulged in child Location: New surroundings of skill Location: Nagala Khushali laboring for his family’s Estimated number of child laborers: 130 Estimated number of child laborers: 36 survival and took all the Work: Designing and marketing shoe. Work: Picking of beads on Payal, begging. responsibilities on him. Let us tell you why he left his school and be- came a victim of child laboring. Sameer lives in a new house with his family. There are 8 members in his fami- ly- 6 brother-sisters and his parents. During his past, when he lovingly used to study and go to separated from them. school, his father used Due to this, his mother’s to pull rickshaw and health was getting worse mother was a laborer. day by day. At that time, With time, his mother looking at his mother’s Location: Sadar Bhatti got diseases like Chol- health, he decided that Estimated number of child laborers: 58 Venue: Agra Cantt, Railway Station era (heza) and his father now he will earn for Work: Selling food and drinks in the trunk, selling Estimated number of child laborers: 36 started drinking alcohol her mother’s treatment. vegetables in the market. Work: Pick up the junk, brooming the train, begging. in his mother’s tension. At present, he is work- At present, his father is ing in a shop of kites an addict of alcohol. He and threads, for which According to the estimated number, there are about 109 such places in Agra Cantt, such as: used to drink alcohol he earn 12000 Rupees Lohamandi, Bilochpura, Poor Nagar, Gherra Basti, Raj Nagar, Jagjivan Nagar, Malwadi, New Bamboo, Sanjay and sleep on roadside in a month. With this Palace, Raja Mandi, Anand Vihar, Bisheshnaganj, Sachta Gram, Gokulpura Tila, Idgahabad, New Basti, Balmiki area and he continuous- amount on his family Basti, Nagla Budan Syed, Bajipura, Kachpura, Golpura, Sant's Mandi, Telipara, Bagh Muzaffar Khan, Khatipara, ly says one thing that is used to survive and his Khatikpada, Karwan Basti, Ice Bazaar, Gautam Nagar, Sirki Mandi, Twelve Khamba, Khandari, Shambhu Nagar, “Somebody please help mother’s treatment is Khatain, Abbas Nag , Charan Singh Wada, beautiful Pada, poor town, betel seller Pada, fifteen quarter, Vidya me so that I can cure also going on. Sameer Nagar, Bajrang lane, Bodlaa Nagla Gangaram etc. my wife”. Seeing such used to say, “If anyhow bad situation, his 4 el- my parent’s health gets Number of estimated child laborers: 109x100 = 10,900 der brothers, who are better, I will start going married, left his fami- to school again as I love ly and decided to stay studying.” Talkative Reporter: Priyanka, Aman, Neenda & Reporter: Poonam BALAKNAMA September, 2017 6 World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children
Some pictures of Lucknow Reader’s letters
Venue: Kaisarbagh Location: Tedi Pulia Venue: Polytechnic intersection Estimated number of child laborers: 15 Estimated number of child laborers: 25 Estimated number of child laborers: 35 Work: begging, working on small shops. Work: showing the game of snake, begging Work: Selling water in buses, begging
Location: Mardiano Estimated number of child laborers: 12 Work: begging, working on small-cottages.
Venue: Engineering Crossroads Estimated number of child laborers: 16 Work: Begging, rag pickers. Location: Maudgaon Estimated number of child laborers: 23 Work: Begging, weaving.
Location: Chowk Estimated number of child laborers: 26 Work: Selling water, begging
Venue: Bhootnath Bazar Estimated number of child laborers: 22 there are some slogans For the purpose Work: Selling lemon-Chilli hangings, Selling a rope, of social and public awareness begging. Location: Charbagh Estimated number of child laborers: 62 In order to make the society and government Work: begging in the buses, brooming the buses, aware of child labour, Balaknama team keeps on selling water. giving as much information as possible to the so- ciety and the government through its cover letter “Balaknama” for every child labour related work According to the estimated number, there are about and area. Child labour is emerging as a major prob- 61 such places in Lucknow such as: lem among the society. It is deleterious for society. Child labour is a stigma which is good to eradicate Presspuram Park, Hazratganj, Kapurthala, Goal from this society as soon as possible. How many Market, Mahanagar, Nishatganj, Munshi Pulia, child labourers are in a country, this shows what di- Daliganj Bridge, Padaria Chaurah, Hussainganj Bus rection the country is developing? Stop, La Place, Khaliganj, Butter Fly Over, Sultan For the purpose of social and public awareness, Place, Naka Handoli, Charbatti Crossroads, Iron there are some slogans are presented in very simple Bazar, Transit Chowk, Najirabad etc. language on child labour :
The journalist team of balakama tried to team up lReplace your son with the ‘Chhotu’ in the eyes Do with the children working in small towns, basti, etc. justice to child labourers. to know the exact number of child laborers. We have put the figures that we could get to know after all the lThey are also children and are true of mind Yes they conversation and investigation, on your desk. It’s not have bad fortune but are still good like that the numbers of places we have given are the only places where child laboring is going on. We have lWhere the childhood lost, what can he tell you? presented the same statics we get to know after putting His life has passed on the road, how he will tell you. all our efforts. Apart from this there may be a lot of child laborers whom we must have not interacted or lIf you are capable, teach a poor child, So, in the ab- counted. sence of money, he should not go to wages.
Number of estimated child laborers: : 61x50 = 3,050 lFocus on your studies Venue: Aminabad Stop labouring Estimated number of child laborers: 42 continued on pg. 8 Work: collecting garbage from the shops, begging Reporter: Anchal, Sangeeta BALAKNAMA September, 2017 World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children 7
Reader’s letters Nishigandh Bhambid someone related with your pa- Karly Cini per see if they can fix the link? Want to say that I am amazed Also where could I get a paper I have recently seen a docu- EDITORIAL by the efforts made by you and copy of your newspaper? mentary about your newspa- your team to convert a distant per here in Australia by Cal- dream into a reality. Alex wall liste Weitenberg. Dear friends, I am coming to Delhi in late Ashutosh Patil I saw the film Al Jazeera and October to attend the Inter- Greetings. 101, produced about you, and national Association for Ad- I am Ashutosh Patil, from Au- I cried. I was amazed at your olescent Health conference. I We are very excited to present the 67th rangabad, Maharashtra. I am resilience and grit. You are my would really love to come and issue of “Balaknama” in your hands. This time very inspired by your work. heroes. I’d love to read your meet your team! Is this possi- You are doing great job, keep newspaper, but I’m not able ble? we have chosen a medium to send news to it up. to sign up on your website. Is Also I work at the Centre you, and that is 'photo'. We hope you have I am interested in starting such there other way by which I can for Adolescent Health at the liked this new way. Through the photo, we newspaper in our Maharashtra subscribe? I would also like to Royal Children’s Hospital in tried to tell you about the places where child state also, for which need your know what I can do to support Melbourne, Australia. I think labors are. We have tried this new way so guidance. Will you help me you. Please let me know how I many staff here would be very and guide me to start this? can help. interested to hear about what that the reader can get information about for you do and to support you. the circumstances of this field and the fact Kinshu Dang Ria, Kanishk Please let me know that in that the news of the tabloid could be made to what ways can we support the truth. I am Kinshu Dang, a journalist We came across your work your paper? Your thoughts and reviews are our pleasure, and researcher based in Delhi. recently and were really in- our honor and our motivation. We hope that I would like to congratulate spired by it. We are doing stuff you and your team for your in a very similar space to you Thank you friends for ap- you will continually send your lovable letters hard work and persistence. - mainly in Africa so far. For preciating our work and also so that we can work with more motivation more discussions, we would for sending your loveable in order to put the problems of children and Tracy Macleod love to meet you. You can see and motivational letters to their situations in front of administration our work here http://www. us. We, the Balaknama team and the government so that they can also I have recently moved to New girleffect.org/what-we-do/ are very happy and encour- Delhi from Canada. I am living Can we arrange a meeting? In aged after reading all your get their rights and live peacefully in the in Chanakyapuri. I saw a story the coming days, two of our letters. We hope that you society and also in order to fulfill their needs. about your paper on Al Jazeera teams are to be there in Delhi. will continually send your 101. I tried to link to the En- motivational letters in order The Editorial Board glish version of the paper but Mark Sanderson to appreciate our work and the web link is broken. Can Brand Director, India encouraging us. Who will listen to Sandhya’s voice? culosis) due to which to give the amount and father left me, my moth- her problems she said, she is always unwell. We said that we have not yet er will also left me due “When I go in trains for don’t even have money returned the last amount to her bad health. That begging, policemen run for her treatment. When we took from them then is why I try my best to towards me for beating we went to the villagers how can they give us earn some money for me. I just want some again to borrow some more money. I have al- my mother’s treatment.” help from everyone, more money for her ways been afraid of one Asking for some help reading my story.” medicines, they denied thing that is as like my and telling more about
For the sake of fulfilling their survival, children are forced to wander from home to home Talkative reporter Sachin
When our journalists saw some children wandering here and there and sitting sad- ly, he went and asked them the reason for this. A 15 years old boy, Talkative Reporter “Due to m compulsions, Sachin said, “We are Sandhya and I am here, begging at the sitting so sad because Reporter Deepak railway stations because from the morning it’s my family is economi- now the afternoon and cally very poor.” Telling still we have not got One of our journalists more about her, she fur- anything to eat. We are saw Sandhya, begging ther added, “Sadly, three craving for hunger.” at small railway stations years ago, my father Telling more about in Bihar. Sandhya is a 12 died. We borrowed five how they manage to we go and pick up that so that we can get some- occupation. In such years old girl, who lives thousand rupees from eat, he further add- rest food from the dust- thing to eat. In order to bad situation what we in Samastipur village, the villagers for his fu- ed, “There is a market bin and eat the same fight from his hunger children can do? Bihar with her family. neral. In order to return near us, there is a huge food and this is how we situations, we started Apart from wan- When our reporter saw that amount, me and my mall in that market, fill our stomach. Sad- begging in our past, but dering, we don’t have such a small girl begging mother is working very where the outsiders ly, some guards of this the public did not give anything else for our he went to her and tried hard. My mother has to come to buy things. market are very bad. us money rather they survival. Sometimes, to interact with her. He work in other’s fields for When they buy They run towards asks us that don’t we we are forced to steal asked her, “Why are you our survival. Sad thing some food to eat and us to beat us from his have anything to do ex- in order to fulfil our begging at such a young is that my mother is also throw the rest of the stick. That’s why we cept begging also they stomach. This hunger age?” Sandhya replied, suffering from tb(tuber- food into the trash keep roaming around says that it’s our daily taught us to steal.”
BALAKNAMA September, 2017 8 World’s Unique Newspaper for and by Street and Working Children CHILD LABOUR AND PUBLIC AWARENESS Balaknama Bureau over the world. childhood and important ed- the children from poor fami- of the steps taken by the gov- Poor parents cannot a ord ucation. Children are the fu- lies are forced to do child la- ernment. It is a social disease Child labour means ‘work to spend on their children’s ture of the country, but the bour. that is hollowing the entire did by children’, whether education. ey don’t even way children are getting stuck Although strict actions society. It needs to be elim- asked to do by their owners earn to ful l their needs then in child labour, it seems that has been taken by the gov- inated from society by root. or are forced by their compul- how can they a ord expenses children are becoming a bur- ernment for the education of erefore, the responsibility sions. Child labour is a serious of their children’s studies in den on the country without poor children in the past few of protecting children from issue, which causes children’s such poor situation. is is being a future. ey are facing years so that no child is in- child labour is not only of the future into the dark. Child one of the main reasons why trials. ey are put to work at dulged in child labour. Poor government but of every cit- labour is one of the main del- most parents force their chil- a young age. Today the rights children are being provided izen of the country. Let’s go eterious of the society. It is dren to start working in their of children are being violated free education. For this, their ahead and plan to ful l our not that child labour is only a childhood only. ey work illegally in the entire society. parents are also being moti- responsibility so that child problem of India, on the basis mostly in shops, Dhabas, ho- Many awareness cam- vated. ere is a need of pub- labour can be eliminated and of an analysed data and infor- tels, construction areas, etc. paigns are being run by the lic awareness and of public a beautiful, happy society can mation received; children are Due to this reason children government to eliminate child participation in order to make be created. working as child labourers all remain deprived of sweet labour, even though most of child-labourer’s parents aware CHILDREN ARE BEING PREYED BY FOUL SMELL Talkative Reporter Anju and Reporter Jyoti sis. A 15 years old girl, Khushi (name changed) said, children fall sick on a regular basis. Whenever we i"MPOHXJUIUIFBDDJEFOUTQSPCMFN BOPUIFSQSPCMFN go to the doctor, he advice us to change our living is news is about a place, whose name has been we have to face due to this dirty drain is its intol- area in order to get rid o the disease.” Expressing kept secret, with eight hundred slums. Some peo- erable foul smell. Our slum is at very less distance their worries and telling about their compulsions, a ple living in these slums are from Bengal and Jhan- from this drain. When somebody uses these toilets, 43 years old lady, Mrs. Komal Devi (name changed) si. ey work as a laborer and rag picker for their the excreta directly go into the drain due to which TBJE i&WFOJGXBOUUPNPWFGSPNUIJTQMBDF XFDBO- survival. During the survey, one of our journalists drain smells very bad. not due to money problems. How will we survive? In got to know that there is a huge drain in this slum, At times while eating food, we feel like vomiting the area we are living a present, is a developing area which is very deep and unsafe. Children living there due to foul odor. People even throw dead animals and also we get a huge amount of rash and wastes said that there is always some accident happening in in this drain only, which is also a reason for its foul very easily.” Keeping a positive thought ahead she this drain. Another weird thing our journalist got to smell.” Telling more about their problems, another GVSUIFSBEEFE i0VSQBSFOUTTBZUIBUPVSQSJNFNJO- know was that people living in the slums have made ZFBST PME HJSM "OKV OBNF DIBOHFE TBJE i8F ister, Mr. Narendra Modi Ji is making toilets for all toilets near the drain with cloths and tarpaulin and children want that some strict actions should be tak- the poor people likewise he will also make toilets for children and parents themselves use it on regular ba- en as soon as possible because due to this drain, we us also so that we can use it with our families.”
THERE ARE SOME SLOGANS FOR THE 1 2 PURPOSE OF SOCIAL AND PUBLIC AWARENESS from page 6 We have to be determined To remove child labour from the roots
Stopping the child labour, We all should do this job.
Do not let children wage child labour. Do not hurt their small hands.
Parents become enemies, When they force the small hands to work. 3 4 Children are godlike, Do not ask them to labour. If the country is to be strengthen. Child labour has to be removed.
ey are small, let them get the knowledge right now, Money, they will earn their whole life.
Education is their birth right, Do not put them on wages.
Children, be all capable, Develop your skills.
Right now, we have to study, Do not make us work- out and earn money. 1) Children’s family surviving by selling lemon water Broaden your country, Prevent Childhood from 5 Child Labour 2) Child labor for the sake of hunger
Child labour is curse, Wages to the child is to be 3) Children indulged in child laboring in the age of paid to sin. studying
Stopping the child labour, We all have to do this 4) Child laboring at hotels and dhabas work 5) Children working even in the homes due to poor Get the right knowledge and education, Be aware of economic conditions labour exploitation
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