This is the picture of a child carrying a huge chunk of boulder on her head that clearly depicts the situation of child labour, which is quite frequent and prevalent among the underdeveloped and developing nations.
There is a growing trend among many countries in the world to industrialize, which could be only possible with a massive amount of manpower working in sync to achieve the numero uno position overnight.
However, the need to provide economic development to a nation is just far behind the promising words when the reality of the country represents the illiterate population, who are the fragile backbone working day and night fulfilling the words of a far-sighted leader or a politician who thinks ahead of the present scenario of the country.
Among the fragile backbone lies a great density of children aged 6-16 whose contribution seems stunning on screen, but who are the ones who strive to live good lives, have some nutritious meals per day, and most importantly, receive quality education and literacy, which would make the children, the future stars of the country.
It is quite unfortunate and disheartening to notice that half of the population of children goes unobserved while registering for the number of births occurring because the majority of them are sent to work on the outskirts of the urban cities to win the bread daily; otherwise, they are no other options left for them to choose to work upon for having at least food, clothes, and shelter.
At an age when children play around, have nutritious meals per day, sleep well, and go to school every day, the labourer children regularly visit their respective work factories wearing tattered and shabby clothes and work 5 to 9 without enjoying the basic necessities of their lives.
Despite numerous schemes for freeing children from forced labour, it seems ineffective to apply for the countless children dwelling around the slum areas, reaching the mills by 5 in the morning and returning to their shanties by 9 in the night.
And despite their over-limit and excess labour out there, they are barely paid and fed and are often forced to work without being paid the bare minimum, which is obviously shocking to hear in the current world where half of the population on earth enjoys deluxe and extravagant lives, spending a great deal of money on useless items that still do not seem to meet the demands and orders of the richest of the riches.
Child labour is one of the most common features in most developing economies and is obviously illegal but still practised extensively. As the number of such underprivileged children grows, it seems more likely for them to get trapped in the vicious net of forced labour without pay. And with improper auditing and investigation by the government authorities, the numbers keep hiding, but the reality makes the situation terrific and worrisome.
Therefore, this brutal labour of children must be blanket-banned in order to provide a good life to our future doctors, teachers, scientists, etc. Child labour would, then, go down in history as one of the cruel wrongdoings, and the coming future would be well aware of it, thus causing the children to lead good and healthy lives.