Kadi: India is home to the largest child labour force in the world, child rights groups say. CNN-IBN takes a look at the cotton ginning factories in Gujarat where children operate dangerous machines and inhale cotton dust all day.
Thirteen-year-old Amit has been learning to write again, this time, with his left hand. Eleven months ago he lost his right arm while working at a cotton ginning factory.
On hidden camera, CNN-IBN has shown how children are used as cheap labour in Gujarat's cotton ginning factories. Operating hazardous machines in a polluted environment, overworked and poorly fed, some children play with their lives.
Inhaling cotton dust and cotton particles all day, the children also risk brown lung disease, chronic asthma and even death due to respiratory failure. The big question is as to why the authorities are doing nothing to stop this well-oiled child labour racket?...
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02:55 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Kadi: India is home to the largest child labour force in the world, say child rights groups. Underpaid, overworked and going largely unpoliced, millions of India's children are at work every day when they should be at school. CNN-IBN traveled to Gujarat's cotton district to find that the use of child labour, brought from Rajasthan, is simply routine. At first glance it's an image of 'Vibrant Gujarat' with 350 cotton...
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