CHILDRENS DAY

CHILDREN’S DAY

Yesterday the 14^th November was celebrated as the Children’s Day on the occasion of the Birthday of Late Pandit JawaharLal Nehru the First Prime Minister of Free India who loved children because they are the future of India, would be responsible citizens, prospective Leaders, Scientists, Officers of Armed Forces, Educationalists, Intellectuals Authors and Legal luminaries and so on and hence the valuable assets of a free country. Nehru was a visionary having cozy loving heart soft spoken but a man of determination selfless person with dedication to serve the Poor, middle class and also not averse to the affluent class too. It needs to be pondered over after 63 years of Independence as to whether the dreams of Nehru have been fulfilled and whether his birthday is befitting to be celebrated as CHILDERS DAY? Let us consider the following points:-

BIRTH OF A CHILD

During British it as not heard off that a poor destitute woman gives birth to a child in open on busy road side of the capital of India, pregnant women are denied admission in maternity hospitals. Children is aborted, killed in Bomb before birth , orphan homes are mismanaged and poor children are abused and are deprived of the basic necessities of life like food, clothing and shelter but all this is happening in our free India even after 63 years of Independence and even the Dr’s hesitate to attend poor downtrodden ladies who are considered untouchable even today in remote areas in villages inspite of law against untouchability.

EDUCATION

Right to education is enshrined in our constitution and law is also enacted for this purpose but even till date our Education Ministers are not clear as to of what age the child should be admitted in a school and even the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India is also involved the matter. On one hand importance is given for free education to children upto 14 years of age and on the other hand there are no seats for those who intend to get education on their own expenses for higher studies. Recently I wrote to Mr Kapil Sible the Un ion Education Minister pointing out that the Seats in schools and colleges are being auctioned for consideration but to no effect.

UNWILLINGNESS

Some poor parents cannot afford to send their children to schools because they help the parents in earning bread for the family; they supplement the income to buy medicine for the ill members of the family but the children are made to go to school. There is a well known proverb that you can take the horse to the pond but you cannot force the horse to drink water, the same is happening in the education field also. What provision has been made to supplement the income of the destitute family who is deprived of the income earned by the child??

FATE OF CHILDEN

Children are obliged to eat Mud instead of food, children are abused, sold for money to get some money for the treatment of a family member, children are deported out of India for various purposed. Children are used for begging and for various other ill legal purposes and the administration is silend spectator of all this.

CHILDREN DAY ADDS IN MEDIA

All news papers audio and video media had ads about the Birthday of Nehru on the 14^th November WHETHER the adds in Media shall serve the purpose It is for the Public to Ponder over because the concerned Ministers are over bust for the real purpose and are in fact interested to see their Photos on the media along with CHHACHA NEHRU. Is that enough at the cost of public money?

R.N.PRABHAKAR