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Why should child labour be eliminated and how?

Child labour often forces children into dangerous environments and deprives them of their childhood. These children also lose access to basic education and this restricts them from doing well in life. Often, children are taken advantage of and are exploited by paying them less than basic pay. Harmful work environment leads to health concerns and may even cause a threat to life. Hence, child labour should be eliminated.


Elimination of Child Labour:


Strict laws should be enacted to prohibit the practice of child labour. Any violations must be immediately and promptly penalized. Also, parents of these children must be made aware of the importance of education, so that they stop sending their children to work. The students must also be told about the value of education. The common public should take the initiative and inform to the responsible officials if any child workers are sighted. Police must also keep a constant check on construction sites and other places where child labour is usually prone to happen.


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How, in your opinion, can Mukesh realize his dream?

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Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangles industry.

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Although this text speaks of factual events and situations of misery it transforms these situations with an almost poetical prose into a literary experience. How does it do so? Here are some literary devices:

• Hyperbole is a way of speaking or writing that makes something sound better or more exciting than it really is.


For example Garbage to them is gold.


• A Metaphor, as you may know, compares two things or ideas that are not very similar. A metaphor describes a thing in terms of a single quality or feature of some other thing; we can say that a metaphor “transfers” a quality of one thing to another. For example The road was a ribbon of light.


• A simile is a word or phrase that compares one thing with another using the words “like” or “as”. For example: As white as snow.


Carefully read the following phrases and sentences taken from the text. Can you identify the literary device in each example?


(a) Saheb-e-Alam which means the lord of the universe is directly in contrast to what Saheb is in reality.


(b) Drowned in an air of desolation.


(c) Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.


(d) For the children it is wrapped in wonder; for the elders, it is a means of survival.


(e) As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.


(f) She still has bangles on her wrist, but not light in her eyes.


(g) Few airplanes fly over Firozabad.


(h) Web of poverty.


(i) Scrounging for gold.


(j) And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art.


(k) The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders.

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The beauty of the glass bangles of Firozabad contrasts with the misery of people who produce them.

This paradox is also found in some other situations, for example, those who work in gold and diamond mines, or carpet weaving factories, and the products of their labour, the lives of construction workers, and the buildings they build.


l Look around and find examples of such paradoxes.


l Write a paragraph of about 200 to 250 words on any one of them. You can start by making notes.