Tirtha Mondal
Volume-XII, Issue-II, January 2024
Volume-XII, Issue-II, January 2024 | ||
Published Online: 31.01.2024 | Page No: 290-297 | |||
Child labour in
India: Morality
Tirtha Mondal, Research Scholar,
Department of Political Science, Bankura University, Bankura,West Bengal, India | |
A holistic development of our society is still a far cry though there have been immense advancement of science and technology. India even after seven decades of independence has been facing the menace of child labour owing to population explosion, poverty, superstitions etc. As per data recorded in the process of 2011 census, the number of child labour is around 10.1 million. Child labour is a menace which is detrimental to the physical and mental health of the victim child. It also is an obstacle to the prosperity of a nation. What is the way out we may be looking forward to? Legal measures in this regard may be a necessary, though not sufficient condition to overcome this evil. What is the crying need of the day for all concerned is to attain a moral standard. The society at large should have a proper ethics and morality to understand the damage being done by the menace of child labour. We all are morally obliged to contribute to prepare every child as ideal citizen in future. It is our morality to raise our voice with farm determination to eradicate this social evil. | |
Keywords: Child labour, Morality, holistic development, Ideal citizen, ethics. | |