Report Writing on Child Labour on the Increase

Child Labour on the Increase

Staff Correspondent, Dhaka, March 9, 2022: Child domestic service is a widespread practice in Bangladesh. A UN Children Fund has found that more than 6.3 million children under 14 are working in Bangladesh. Children are labouring as maids and servants, in garment factories and engineering workshops, in the construction sector, as bus or tempo helpers, in the cigarette factories, as roadside restaurant workers and street vendors, and in tea plantations and other agricultural sectors. Boys often perform tasks like going to the grocery, cleaning the drain, talking the garbage to roadside bins, washing the car and sell nuts etc. On the other hand, girls have to iron the cloths, attend phone calls and serve the guests. The child domestic workers are often the least paid in the society, their remuneration ranging from 80 taka to 400 taka per month. In most of the cases, they hand over all their earnings to their parents, leaving nothing for themselves. Children have been injured while engaged in factory work, in maritime work and while operating or cleaning machinery in motion. Child workers are regularly exposed to dangerous levels of dust, gases, fumes, heat and noise. Muscular-skeletal and respiratory-related ailments are common among child labourers.

Child labour is not only inhuman but also destructive. Bangladesh must be prompt in making void child labour by taking effective and pragmatic steps so that today’s children can be ideal citizens for future. Children are the future hopes and aspirations of a country. So, we should give them proper facilities to grow up well stopping their unexpected and outrageous labour.