Child labor in Nepal

Generally speaking today the issue of child labour is being one of the major issue around the globe. Human beings, known as social animals do have their own personality and stages which are generally divided into three stages or categories: child, adult and man or old age. According to the definition of UN general convention on the rights of the child, a child is one who falls below the age of eighteen years. If we evaluate Nepalese act relating to the child defines a child as a person below the age of fourteen, which age is taken as a very sensitive age which needs well-cared and protective environment. But due to the different circumstances/ means/ or causes like lack of awareness, poverty, ignorance of society, conventional dead values situation of children is different in all developing countries like Nepal, by which children are employed as labour in various dangerous and unhealthy works. There is no doubt that the issue of child labour is taken as gross violence of human rights, which has become a common phenomenon in Nepal as well as in other developing countries. When we are about to evaluate the status or circumstance of child labor in Nepal, according to the population, first of all it is better to know the population of child in Nepal. According to the population census 2001 the total population is 22.7 million, in which the ratio of child population is very high and is increasing in each period. The big chunk of population under the age of 14 years is getting no proper education and care which results Nepal facing serious problems of uneducated and unskilled mass of human resources.

Among the 6,225,000 population if children the percentage of school going children is only 36.7%. where the work participation of child comes to hit 41.6%.. The percentage of both working and schooling is 25.5% while only working not schooling is 16.1% . generally 95% of the total population of child work in the rural areas of Nepal. Which comes to reveal that high mobility of child population for work in urban areas of Nepal.

Working children comprise of two types, those working in their own household and those working for others or waged child. Among them most of the children are working in agriculture. Among total percentage of child population 94.7% of them involve In the agricultural work while other remaining child work in service and in technical work i.e production, construction, transportation, and communication.

Another issue about child is that among the total population of child working child comprises 36.8% male and 45.1% female child, which shows that female working percentage is higher than male. The percentage of working female children in urban areas is 21.0% and in rural area is 48.0% whereas the percentage of working male children in urban is 17.9% and in rural areas is 39.3%. It also shows the clear picture that in both rural and urban areas female children are working more than male children in case of Nepal and almost all developing countries around the globe.

So child labour, mostly in developing countries like Nepal is increasing. For the eliminating of child labor government sector, central level, district level, local level, private sector, family, community and community based organizations etc. should be aware.

Exploitation or necessity?

What do you think the butterfly is sucking the nector from a lovely flower. But is it exploitating it or is the necessity of butterfly?

Debate between Armchair politicians' and condition of common people.

Nepal, the country where Lord Buddha was born is now facing the problem of quarrel, uncertainty, instability, lack of consensus between and within the political parties and weeping rememebring those days when political stability was there, common people were living safely and using their rights frequently and iving in their own world along with peace and so on.

Today our motherland Nepal is in that condition where they are deprived of using thier rights and uncertainty everywhere. Not only the citizen of Nepal but also the citizen of the world, who used to come nepal to see the scenic beauty and many tourism places are today told not to visit nepal and if they visit they are said to visit certain places by their ruler because of their insecurity, and instability in our country. World rich and famous countries like United states, european countries advisory have told their citizen not to visit Nepal in present time. But the so-called people’s parties of Nepal are playing game to achieve post and rule them by earning many more by incresing the price of the daily using things by common people. They do everything in speech and make country heavenly and drastic change in the country but in practice from the beginning period they are busy in doin work in the welfare of their own.

Common people of Nepal are made scope-goat by time and again . they are used in time of election and praised by the political leaders saying we will do this for you , to win the election but after winning the election they are capital based and do not go in remote place to view and solve the problem of those people who were used as scapegoat in the time of election .

It is uncertain that when road, transportation,etc will be called close. Even a small matter becomes the cause of strike and so on. That is why there is no proper law in the country. The so called peoples representative are busy in playing game how to achieve chair and earn much for them,their relatives, and for next generation. In case of nepal firstly the awareness programme should be given for the leaders.

So it is necessary to make aware for the leaders because the peace process and constitution drafting process may be late and may not be complete without consensus within and between the political parties. If not so the common people will be the scape-goat forever. The slogans to improve all sector of Nepal make it a prosperous country will be confined in speech only.

Preparing Radio Program

The students of Bachelor level third year of the central department of journalism and mass communication of Tribhuvan unversity (Ratna Tajya Laxmi campus ) attempting to produce radio program and the technician teacher Samanta Acharya helping them technically.