UDAIPUR, July 11 (TIWN): R.K.Pur Police rescued 4 child labours who had been working as handyman in trucks, used to work as labours of carrying sacks of rice at the go-down of Food Corporation of India (FCI), located at Chndrapur colony, Udaipur Sub-division. The labours who have been found working there, are brought from different parts of the state, including 1 child from Guwahati.

Many such child-labourers who are being deprived from education and suffer from every day miseries can be found working in every shops, households, vehicle, and industries all over the state.

The children are identified as Aktar Hossain, S/O- Ali Hossain from Dataram, Sukanta Deb, S/O- Subrata Deb from Ambassa, Jahir Hossain, S/O-Monohor Hossain from Dharmanagar and Bishra Urao, S/O’ Arjun Orao from Gwahati. Police had been failed to catch the drivers although. R.K. Pur police, under the leadership of SI Biswajit Das had been informed from sources about few child labourers, following which police raided to each and every shops at Matatbari location, but before the police could arrive, they flew. However, police is further investigating the case. The event took place on July 10 evening. All the children are presently under the safe-guard of police, as per the information.

Now, it’s important to quote here that Manik Sarkar on the one hand very proudly declares Tripura as crime free state, whether before the eyes of  FCI daily child labourers are spoiling their lives, their childhood and as well as their future.

“Child labour is a crime”; and this crime’s mastermind would obviously be the CM, the God-father of any state. Although children have many rights, these rights are not always protected, when they live in such a state where ministers and officials are busy with power and money and thus turn blind eyes towards such issues as “Child-Labour”. Child labour is a part of corrupted world and there is no place for it in our modern world today, and and it’s to be fair enough to say that Tripura Govt. is failure to give a better life to the children of the state. Moreover, in the capital city also children are often found as begging and suffering.

The national commission had visited the state before few years, in 2013 to oversee the deplorable condition of children in Mizoram Reang refugee camps in north Tripura on a complaint by a New Delhi based human rights organization, however the scenario has not yet changed.

According to IPC 374, whoever unlawfully compels any person to labour against the will of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment, which may extend to one year or with fine or both. The act prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 in factories, households and other places. But law and order comes later, first the govt. should give strict restrictions upon child-labour issues, then it will crime will automatically decreased.