Free the Child Labour

Thanks to the radio, today i became part of a very good cause. Yes, next time if I even walk across a shop selling leather items, i would simply walk up to the owner and ask "Are your products free of child labour?"

Our nation is a made up of more than 100 billion people out of which many live below poverty lines.......in this millenium of abbreiation and connotations for all, these are known as BPLs. Please do not mistake it for one of the very big brands of the 90's.

I had just mailed across to my group and this blog is about that. it includes no soultion from me but a friend took great pain to come up with the following:

Shampu's Idea:
1. Provide stipend to every child that goes to school (from below


poverty line families)



By the way, this is practised in Saudi Arabia, where ppl have enough

money and can have a good life with/without education. When the kids

graduate to high school, they get more money :D And (u can't believe

this,) if a boy marries while still studying, his stipend gets

doubled!!! This is hugely successful. Ppl zabardasti send their kids to

school!



2. Invest in govt funded schools to become day-boarding. This will

ensure that kids study and also get extra help if required.



3. Impose education cess on a national level. I think it was imposed

once... but dnt know if it still exists.



4. Implement some kind of exemption for corporations and media companies

that work for mass education. This mite work as tax exemption or export

duty exemption....



5. Implement the Right to Education bill honestly - force private

schools to reserve seats for BPL kids who r good students.



6. Make "each one teach one" a year-long project for students of class

10 or 12. This would be far, far better that the STUPID supw work we

delegate to our local tailors :-X



7. Invest in e-tutorials!!! Or radio/TV tutorials like the one Tata sky

offers. Although Tata sky is expensive by rural standards, CDs and flash

files implemented village-wise would be far more cheap and effective.

This task may be delegated to students/NGOs.



8. Delegate work to NGOs. Form a national-level committee to oversee the

NGO's performance. I would suggest that these NGOs should be kept free

of local bodies' interference so that at the grassroot level, there is a

free market in the education sector that would make the schools

competitive. By this I mean people will have 4 basic choices:

a. PRIVATE SCHOOLS - Independently funded

b. STATE-GOVT FUNDED SCHOOLS - State funded

c. NGO/CENTRALLY CONTROLLED EDU CENTRES - Central govt funded

d. KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA (where available) - Central govt funded



9. Set up an independent body to hold college entry examinations in the

line of the American SAT so that kids who pass out of 12 don't fall into

the nexus of money-laundering instis for education.



10. Publicise all govt expenditure and returns on edu every year. This

should not be subject to someone filing an RTI request. It should work

independently as part of the govt's process to mobilise mass education.



11. Marketing Marketing Marketing!!! People love emotion and glitz. If

the govt wants participation they must make their plan saleable. So I'd

suggest that the govt gets hold of some of these goddam IIM passouts

(who fatten their vilayati bosses' pockets) and get some work done by

them!!! I'm sure they'll come up with better stuff than this.
 
 
Juicey's Idea:
It might sound funny, but i agree with her as well..
Laddoo we are also childrens? Aren't we? So y r they exploiting us?


Y is there no org supporting our cause??



Anyways I would suggest to increase the number and quality of schools and teachers, and remove examinations so that children go there on their own free will.



As of child labour, well the mother goes into labour to get the child then y should the child labour?

The mother should take care, rite? Anyways Indians make very bad parents..so I suggest the govt. should take immediate steps to stop women labour first, then child labour will stop automatically.



Moreover, some children are nasty brats, if you give them proper food, house, and clothes still they would prefer to move out of their own will (this I am speaking out of my experience with working with station urchins) they do not stay in one place but slip to different stations seeking adventure.



However, having said all this I still do not support child labour (though I am confused wht u mean by this).

It should be completely banned in India given that we are a nation of over a billion population (where 70% are adults and can work)

Moreover, I think in every constituency the MLA or MP must run his own orphanage (because most of these orphans are theirs)





I hate child labour it saddens me to see them running in the streets selling mundane items risking their lives, they have no food, shelter or future.



We should possibly donate clothes or items which we discard to NGOs who can help them.

And if any of u wish to support this cause, please visit http://www.childlabourfree.in/.