Bhubaneshwar: Police in a coastal Orissa village have arrested a daily wage earner, Ramesh Naik, who killed his six-year-old son Rakesh on Saturday after the boy ate away his father’s share of ‘aloo chops’ (potato cutlet).
Hyderabad: A cloth dealer has been arrested for severely beating up a nine-year-old girl, Y. Padma, working in his house for breaking a porcelain tea cup. Police suspect suspect that the girl’s father Gokarna might have sold her to Mahesh. She was being paid Rs 200 per month and the money was collected by her father.
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The two news items reported from Orissa and Andhra- Pradesh reveal the real situation in the rural parts of our country behind the much publicized euphoria of IT, BT boom.
The news item from Hyderabad is nothing but a concrete proof for the failure of state machinery to curb the practice of child labour . It is also an indication of depth of degradation , human being is capable of . Greed makes them to forget every thing else for the sake of money . In this case parents, employer on the state have to bear the burden of sin equally .
The news item from Orissa is not only shocking but also most disturbing . Of course utter poverty of the parents can be offered as an excuse for such an act of cruelty . But there is something more serious than the material status of the parents v involved here. Even animals and birds take care of their younger ones for a certain period if not for ever but never stoop to the level of killing them for consuming their food . It is a fit case for sociological and psychological analysis to prevent the recurrence of such ghastly incidence.
The state and society have to introspect a lot. Several crores of rupees have been earmarked and spent for various schemes of child welfare and rural development . The fact that we have yet to create right atmosphere in the country side to eliminate the causes of such inhuman action speaks volumes of our achievement .
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The two news items reported from Orissa and Andhra- Pradesh reveal the real situation in the rural parts of our country behind the much publicized euphoria of IT, BT boom.
The news item from Hyderabad is nothing but a concrete proof for the failure of state machinery to curb the practice of child labour. It is also an indication of depth of degradation, human being is capable of. Greed makes them to forget every thing else for the sake of money. In this case parents, employer on the state have to bear the burden of sin equally.
The news item from Orissa is not only shocking but also most disturbing. Of course utter poverty of the parents can be offered as an excuse for such an act of cruelty. But there is something more serious than the material status of the parents involved here. Even animals and birds take care of their younger ones for a certain period if not for ever but never stoop to the level of killing them for consuming their food. It is a fit case for sociological and psychological analysis to prevent the recurrence of such ghastly incidence.
The state and society has to introspect a lot. Several crores of rupees have been earmarked and spent for various schemes of child welfare and rural development. The fact that we have yet to create right atmosphere in the country side to eliminate the causes of such inhuman action speaks volumes of our achievement.
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