Children are the future of a nation. Yet children have been a neglected lot in India, which is evident from various disturbing features of Infant mortality, child morbidity, child malnutrition, childhood disability, child abuse, child labor, child prostitution, street children, child beggary , child marriage juvenile delinquency, drug addiction and illiteracy.
India has earned a dubious distinction of having produced the largest child labor force in the world. That children constitute 36% of Indian population makes it all the more shameful that a bulk of our children suffer from poverty, disease and cruel exploitation through forced labor and begging. One third of the Indian children under sixteen years of age [ and this may be a gross underestimation] are child laborers, forced to work under hazardous conditions, for long hours and undergo physical abuse.
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