Click to play videoGujarat: CNN-IBN brings a special report from Gujarat: The moving story of two teenagers who work with toxic metal scrap at the Alang Ship-breaking Yard.
13-year old Nasir Baloch of Bhavnagar does not go to school. Instead he
works to sort and transport toxic scrap metal from ships at the controversial
Alang Ship-breaking Yard. His friend Mohsin works there too.
Nasir Baloch, who is a child labourer says,"I do this out of compulsion. We can only have three meals from my father's earnings. I have to work so that other expenses are met."
"The dust goes into our eyes and mouth. It causes pain and irritation.
Sometimes we also get cut while working " says Mohsin.
Like Nasir and Mohsin, 600 other child-workers across Gujarat got a chance to tell their tale in Ahmedabad at a public hearing to mark World Human Rights Day. They stories showcase India's acute failure to prevent child labour.
Rajan Mohanty, Programme Manager, Save the Children says,"A major chunk of child labourers are in the agriculture sector. They need to be brought into the prohibited list, so that they can be protected under the law."
Just getting children enrolled into schools is perhaps not enough. What's important is that society treats child labour in any form as totally unacceptable.
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