BANGALORE: Child labor is extensively rampant in a developing nation like India where young children are employed for hazardous jobs in factories. The rights of these children are violated as it takes away their dreams and possibilities, depriving them of education.
According to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India latest study entitled ‘Electronic Waste Management in India', the country presently has about 4.5 lakh child labors who are engaged in various electronic-waste activities without adequate protection and safeguards in various yards and recycling workshops. Such children are often employed mainly to dismantle e-waste.
Secretary General ASSOCHAM, D S Rawat said, “ASSOCHAM’s report strongly advocates legislation to prevent a child's entry into this labor market. The chamber has also strongly advocated the need to bring out effective legislation to prevent entry of child labor into its collection, segregation and distribution.”
The study also revealed that around 4 percent of India's total e-waste gets recycled due to poor infrastructure, legislation and framework which lead to diminishing natural resources, irreparable damage of environment and health of the people working in industry.
“Over 95 percent of e-waste generated is managed by the unorganized sector and scrap dealers in this market, dismantle the disposed products instead of recycling it", the study jointly conducted by ASSOCHAM and Frost and Sullivan said.
Since India is likely to generate e-waste to an extent of around 15 lakh metric tonnes (MT) per annum by 2015 from the current level 12.5 lakh MT per annum, child workers in this field might double in the near future too.
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