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This story is from November 1, 2007
View: Employing children is inhuman
It is irksome that matters are allowed to escalate a great deal in India before the authorities consider setting their house in order.
Commerce minister Kamal Nath has a case when he says that allegations of child labour are often used by developed countries as a way of imposing non-tariff barriers on Indian goods.
If investigations reveal that the Indian suppliers of GAP did not actually use child labour, then the chain needs to be taken to task. But the existence of child labour in India must be acknowledged. There is enough proof to demonstrate that scores of children work under hazardous conditions in manufacturing units, agriculture, weaving, fireworks, fishing and most commonly as domestic helps.
This is in violation of India's own laws. Not to mention that at a time when the country is trying hard to increase its share of global trade, sweatshops using child labour would only lend Indian exports a bad reputation. All sorts of companies obtain goods from Indian vendors and authorities must try hard to monitor the supply chain.
A distinction must be made between forced child labour and employment in a family-based cottage industry like pottery or knitting, wherein the children work in their spare time after school hours. Child labour means that children are deprived of the opportunity to play and grow intellectually. They are deprived of education.
Child labour in that sense, in which the child's physical, mental and emotional well-being is compromised, violates his rights.
Counterview: Child labour is only a lesser evil
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