Dear MEL School's Topic Readers,Beedi industry's child workers trapped in economic slavery!
You may find it difficult to believe that such working and living conditions are still common in certain areas of the largest democratic country by number.
Working over 12 hours a day only for a day's meal and a roof for the night as early as at the age of ten till they turn 40 when they no longer be able to roll cigarettes. Neither democracy nor capitalism seems to provide descent life to this poor children and women in India where modern economy and lifestyle are booming in developing areas and nuclear weapons are deployed to protect the sovereign state.
A simple question; why they don't grow food for themselves by farming, why they struggle to make only $2?
Enjoy reading and learning from this staggering report.
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/11/beedi-industrys-child-workers-trapped-in-economic-slavery-2/?hpt=hp_c2
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