Sunday 28 August 2016

Small Girl Working

These days in our college construction work is going on. We have our practical session after our lunch break and before that we have our lectures. After lecture, one day I was stepping down from staircase as our department is on fourth floor. As construction work was going , some labours were standing on staircase on different floors to pass the material from ground floor to upstairs. Meanwhile I saw a girl who was looking young (age less than 15) and she was looking sweet. One of my female friends asked her age and she was innocent without thinking much she replied "12 saal ki hu mai". My friend was eating biscuit and she offered her one. That small girl smiled and hesitated and after a small sort of forcing she accepted it. Next day again we went to the same place. We asked her name but i dont't remember her name and asked her the reason of her working. She was very innocent and she used to answer without thinking much, she replied" meri maa kaam karti hai yaha..par abhi wo bimaar hai isliye mai aati yaha" and we requestioned her "kya tum akeli aati ho yaha?" She replied " meri mausi bhi hai na yaha". She went as she was in hurry ,we stayed there and again after few minutes she arrived. She was carrying a heavy sack on her head. My friend asked her" kya khana khaya aapne?" She said " nahi. Abhi khayenge hum sab 2 baje". It was a sucking sunny day. Without working she was sweating and that small girl was working like hell. After such conversations we came to know that she was studying in corporation school , her mother was working as a labour and as it was summer so she was having vacations. She used to work on site on behalf of her mother because if her mother won't come to work she won't be getting money and the manager would have fired her.
  We don't call children children working in movies and televisions as child labour but we call those who do work like this. I don't know what to comment on such condition as right or wrong because i am noticing both the sides for some part right and some part wrong. The girl is working for her mother as she is ill and they won't get money to eat is right  but she is below 18 and she is working is wrong.

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