Child Labour In Bangladesh

A large number of people in Bangladesh maintain their families working as laborers. But they can't maintain their family properly with a very little income . As a result , they are compelled to engage their children in physical work from a very early age to supplement with their income . But these children earn very little compared to the volume of work . Instead of going to school , they go to work . They can't read and write.

These children work in the houses of well-to-do families as servants or maid servants . Sometimes in rural areas , they work as land-laborers who work in the scorching  heat and tormenting rain .These children sometimes works in shops , hotels and restaurants . There also founds to carry brick and other building materials from one place to another . They are seen to crush brick . Even some are found to work as street-hawkers , rickshaw-pullers and car-cleaners . They work in small factories . Sometimes they polish boots , sell chanachurs , badam etc . They work as coolies at the railway platforms . Some work as porters . In rural area , some children catch and sell fishes .

The pitiable situation about child labor is that they are made to work for longer time than adult laborers but they are paid quite less than them . They have to face various situations . The children who in the houses as servants or maid servants are sometimes maltreated and even beaten by the masters and housewives . These children working as servants or maid servants have to work from early morning to late hours at night .They have to work for fifteen or eighteen hours a day . They are given rotten food .They are not even treated as human beings . At that growing age , they suffer from malnutrition and their physical as well as mental growth is retarded .They grow up only to become sick and drag a miserable existence . These child-labors have to work hard to survive . They have to work for longer times in shops and hotels with less wages . They are often oppressed by the owners . Minor boys working as rickshaw pullers and factory workers sometimes become victims of accidents , lose their limbs and pass their days as disabled persons . Accounting to ILO convention , the normal working hour is eight hours a day . But these child laborers  work from fifteen to eighteen hours a day . The hard labor badly affects their health . Those who work only eight hours a day in office or factory , don't hesitate to make the minor boy-servants or maid servants work 15 to 18 hours in their houses . This is sheer injustice and this can't be accepted .

We can't approve that these minor boys and girls should be ill-treated or mercilessly beaten in spite of their rend rendering so much toilsome services . All section of people as well as the government should security think about the matter . Child labour should be stopped by law . People in general should be more humans and sympathetic in their treatment towards the working children .