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Coimbatore, July 30, 2012
India to be crowned by 2030!
Surprised why and how India is predicted to be number one and crowned for the same! No, don’t get away with wild guesses; it is none other than our population growth and position. India represents 17.3% of the world population that is one among six people on the planet belongs to India. It becomes vital for all Indians, to know the details of world population and our share in it (not an achievement to celebrate as such) on the world population day being held on 11th July every year, a day to bring in awareness at international level to protect the right of being born. Can we raise our collars and be proud for our position in population growth? What the answer may be, providing opportunities for education and employment for all, eradication of poverty, increasing health facilities, providing security, improving agricultural produces and enhancing small business development assistance are some of the core areas for our nation to concentrate on. Providing quality of life for all citizen obvious will be any nation's priority, especially for India to develop, it should curtail population growth, as well measure out stringent policies on family planning, improving literacy rate,
providing equal opportunity for rural and urban population along with improving sustainable models of growth to preserve natural resources. One question which predominantly appears in our minds is, whether any strong measures have been taken to curb the growth rate of population. Truly speaking, yes we did, with the National Family Planning Programme launched in 1952; we were the first country to have a policy to control population. Though results were favorable, initially, later years failed to emphasize on family planning, that has lead us to the current position. A joke I have read somewhere pops up in my mind that describes our current status. It goes like, a teacher while lecturing on population says; In India after every 10 second a woman gives birth to a kid. A student stands up and replies, we must find and stop her. Jokes apart, we are in a critical position to think and act to stop our population explosion. If not, frame measures to equip them into human capital which will make the world turn towards India, stop raising their eyebrows on our population figures.
Spoken Hindi Made Easy 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 8. 9. 10.
Doctor i am not feeling well. Doctor meri tabiyat teekh nahin hain What happened? Kya hua? I have severe stomach ache. Mere petth mein bahut dard hai. Did you have any food outside? Tumne kuch bahar khana khaya kya. Yes doctor yesterday i had aluchat in the roadside. Han doctor kal meine gali mein aluchat khaya tha. Don’t you know roadside foods are not hygenic? Kya thume maloom nahi ki gali ke khane saaf nahin hoote. Yes doctor i know but still i could not refuse my friends. Han doctor mujhe patha hai, par mein dostoon ko mana nahin kar sakha. Do they have the same problem? Kya unhe bhi yah shikayat hai? No doctor thay are fine. Nahin ji ve sab teekh hain. O.k. I will give medicine. Don’t eat anything out side untill you are well. Teekh hain mein aapko davayi detha hun. Apne teekh hone tak bahar bilkul khana nahin khana. Yes doctor, thankyou Ji doctor sahab, danyavaad. From Hindi department
Radha.G, Head - School of Communication
The Eradication of Child Labour says - S.Tharini 1st year B.Sc Visual Communication.
"Child labour" is, generally speaking, work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way (physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking access to education). BUT: There is no universally accepted definition of "child labour". Varying definitions of the term are used by international organizations, non-governmental organizations, trade unions and other interest groups. Writers and speakers don’t always specify what definition they are using, and that often leads to confusion. Children who are forced to labour are not criminals; they are victims of an unjust, unequal society. However, in the implementation of the programmes that profess to address child labour, they are most often treated as perpetuators of crime - and not as individuals whose rights are being violated, individuals struggling to survive in the midst of increasing pressures, individuals who should be respected and assisted to find ‘real’ alternatives that provide lasting solutions to their problems. The policies and action plans pursued by the Government of India
for the ‘eradication of child labour’ in India is a matter of deep concern and anguish. Since the Gurupadaswamy Report of 1978 the Government of India has concerned itself with the issue of children who work. Yet it is an outrage that so many children still work in humiliating and injurious occupations, and exploitative labour is one of the worst things that can happen to children. State strategies related to child labour in India have shamefully failed to meet our constitutional commitments to children who are forced to work for myriad reasons and the experience of the past few decades has shown that in most cases the situation of these children has gone from ‘the frying pan into the fire’. These strategies have not only failed but have also caused irreparable harm to many children they were intended to help. The ‘child labour programme’ consists of identifying or locating working children below the age of 14 years, removing them from the work place and installing them in an educational institution or brought into the Juvenile Justice System
– by ‘raid and rescue operations’ – that are often carried out in ways that are extremely traumatic to children and concluded with piece meal actions. This approach is implemented through punitive action against employers while branding parents as irresponsible – leading to criminalisation of children who labour. The only way the State has seen fit to implement this legislation is through compulsion with the assistance of the ‘inspectors’ from both the governmental as well as non governmental sectors. Correct and Strict Government - Tax collections from everyone including political leaders, business sector people and everyone who is eligible - provide opportunities of jobs for all -strict ruling, provisions and implementation of the same in case of children education - make a strict law and implement to avoid the child labour. Any parent can avoid sending their child to work at that stage if you provide a day spend for them. Government has to take the initiation to provide the job opportunities to the poor. These may not be hi fi jobs.
Providing jobs to all poor people is not simple. Government has to have money. The only good way is to collect tax from every eligible person. One cannot tell the statistics but we have seen somewhere that if Govt collect tax from every eligible individual in India the whole country can live like America. Other side, India has very good laws. But they are not strictly implemented. Hence India needs a good and strict government. We must adopt a more enabling and empowering strategy that does not treat child workers as the problem, but includes them as a part of the solution. Let consultations with working children themselves form the basis for this new Plan of Action that is child rights friendly and takes into account both the micro and the macro causes of child labour.
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