NO CHILD LABOUR, PLEASE

About 93 percent of child workers toil almost 13 hours a day as unrecognised industries thrive on cheap labour due to a lack of monitoring by the government and lax enforcement of laws. Protection gear is a far cry when the children are exposed to vulnerable working atmosphere, sometimes boiling in high temperature of moulding workshops. On the eve of World Day against Child Labour, The Daily Star visited factories in the unrecognised industries in parts of the city. Their daily income ranges from Tk 30 to Tk 150 as physical torture befalls them without a bargain. In Kamrangirchar, dozens of kids work in factories producing their object of fancy—balloon—and cookware as well. They run the length of rope factories in dozens in Keraniganj.