Child
labour
Sir,
I feel it sad to inform that
in my State of Jammu and Kashmir the
cases of child labour are might be much
higher than the rest of the country. That
as you are aware that the State is his
adversely with the militancy and the poor
people are living in a bad condition that
the children are forced to go for labour
at very small age. That one sector which
I found is that of transportation in
which the condition of the children in
even more worst. The children are either
forced or attracted with glittering needs
to go for working i.e they do work in
trucks and buses as cleaner/conductors.
The State Govt is not paying any
attention toward these minors and the
greedy people are exploiting these
innocent children. The regional transport
authorities/traffic police of the State
do not take any action in this serious
matter. That as per law of prevention of
Child Labour a minor is not allowed to
work and the person/agency who uses the
services of these minors shall be awarded
with punishment or fine or both.
That also according to Jammu
and Kashmir traffic rules a
conductor/cleaner of a commercial
bus/truck/matadoor or any other
commercial vehicle must hold a valid
license to carry on the work of
conductor/cleaner.
Therefore, hereby, I request
you and general public to appeal that
State Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir/Ministry
of Transportation of Jammu and
Kashmir/Traffic Police of Jammu and
Kashmir and Director General of Jammu and
Kashmir police to make arrangements to
check that no minor/child is harrassed
and exploited and those found guilty
should be punished in a justified manner.
Yours
etc..
Raman Kumar Sharma
Mast Garh
Jammu
Female
foeticide
Sir,
It is heartening to note
that the Govt. has taken a serious view
against the growing incidence of female
foeticide in the country. The National
Commission for women, chairperson Ms.
Girija Vyas has appealed to the UPA
Government to make the Pre-Natal
Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition on sex
selection, PNDT) Act more stringent all
plug and the loopholes in it''. Ms. Vyas
has urged State Governments to
immediately set up monitoring committees
at district level to curb and check the
growing practice of illegal abortions
which has caused severe imbalance in the
demography of several states particularly
Rajasthan, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. It
is dis-appointing to reveal that about 80
percent of District medical health
officers in the country don't know what
the PNDT Act is. Awareness about the
issue is a must and State Women
Commissions, NGO, civil society, and the
police should come together in a
co-ordinated manner to fight this social
evil. Lastly, I feel that besides the
stringent laws and acts being enforced in
true letter and spirit, may prove a
milestone in eradication of this social
stigma.
Yours
etc...
Lokinder Singh Ravi
85, Channi Rama
Jammu
A hope
for better future
Sir,
This is in reference to ''A
native in alien Kashmir!'' (Rajesh Bhat,
Sept. 17). It was a very moving story and
I being a Muslim Kashmiri would like to
put forward my views. My mother had a
number of Battini as her friends and even
now gets fascinated while talking about
them. She had got her zatuk prepared and
ears pierced for wearing dajihur. Even
now when she comes to Jammu, she insists
on meeting any battini I may have got
acquainted with, in the hope they may be
her lost friends. At his recent visit to
Jammu my father was in high spirits as he
had met his batti friend.
I remember the time just
after migration. One of our neighbors,
Mr. Zadu, a teacher of physics, had left
overnight like many Kashmiri Pandits, I
along with a group of local children,
managed to enter his house and to my
delight found a number of books some of
which I carried along with me to have a
detailed look in the evening. I can never
forget the severe thrashing I got from my
father (which was a rare occurrence for
me). Later when he cooled down, he wept
and said that imagine a person who has
been compelled to leave his hard earned
belongings in this way. I had loved the
books just at one sight, how much would
he have loved them? He then commanded me
to leave the books from where I had
brought them. I am sorry to say that in
the days to come the house was looted
like many others and then a Muslim family
settled there. Mr. Zadu had managed to
built that house after his old home to
some 'downtown' locality had been razed
to ground and the only thing that had
escapped the ravages of fire was a khos
that his mother had come carrying out of
the building as she was having her tea at
the time. Somehow I had always felt
guilty that we had not been able to
protect the houses from looters but then
we were also 'genuinely afraid'. I think
we cannot change the past let's make our
present pleasant and future secure so
that there are no more 'forced
migrations', 'deserted homes'' and
'looted debris'.
Yours
etc...
Shahnaz
Jammu
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