Not a Part of Vote Bank Who Cares To Listen Them?

Before starting the easy I need to highlight o some statistical report regarding the child right in India:

i)                    According to the report of NFHS-III2005-06 every 2^nd child in India malnourished

ii)                   National dropout rate in elementary level is over 40%(DISE 2011-12)

iii)                 Nearly 45% girls get married before they age of 18 years

iv)                 Only 54% children receive full immunization

v)                  India has Highest child labor population

Okay, do I need to describe we are going through what kind of dismal situation? Actually Ida Indian Government is driven by so powerful politician and they do the politics of vote-banking. Children are not a part of vote-bank, so thinking about them never     electoral outcome. They treat children as the next generation of economically contributing adults. And irony is when the children grow up they vote these leaders.

But we can’t blame Indian constitution there are articles on child right:

i)                    Right to free and compulsory education for all children in 6-11 years age group(article21A)

ii)                   Right to protected from any hazardous employment till the age of 14 years

iii)                 Right to protected from being abused and forced by economic necessities to enter occupation unsuited to their age of strength (article 39(e))

iv)                 Right to equal opportunities and facility to develop in a healthy manner and condition in freedom dignity and guaranteed protection of childhood and youth exploitation and against moral and ageist moral and martial abdomen(39(e))

There are constitutional guarantees of opportunity and civil rights, instead of that, millions of children face wide spread deprivation and discrimination. How mean discrimination society does implies in the tag illegitimate child. A child born out of wedlock or of a void or illegal marriage are illegitimate child.

Children pay for the decision taken by the parent and are denied of inheritance, rights. Even worst a child born of rape is stigmatized and treated we ill time both by society ad law. And how the rights (mentioned in constitution) are enforced if we start to analyse step by step we will get the real scenario. Access to health?? Ridiculous question. The health of our children continuous to be a matter of grave concern especially in the era of growing privatization of health services and the increasing inaccessibility to poor. Plus environmental pollution degradation lead to a further deterioration of street children health. Suffering from malnutrition and dying of starvation most common news we get in newspapers. In case of education we have already mention the statistics. Precise that most children in India who do get a chance to go to school they usually go to government schools. Most of the Government school are often dirty teacher don’t come on regular basis and if they come they don’t teach well. Pupils don have books or toys of learning age. Common children don’t get excess to few good highly costly privet school. So the picture of education system is equally poor. But there are some non-governmental organisations instead of government who are really doing good and most famous them are smile foundation, plan India children, save the children India, child right India foundation CRY India

But how much they can do if there is no strong pillar of support. Strangely although this is being a major problem few people ache raising voice against it. Any kind of concern for child never can be found in voting agendas from any political party. Other citizens please don’t forget their future adults. And yes respected politicians, don’t forget if they get aware about their fact you are causing many reasons for their spoiled futures, they may forgive you ever. And yeah there going to be a part of vote bank after some years, keep in mind.

Gargi Sarkar

MACJ, Sem-I