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The number of child labour is increasing in an alarming rate in the district due to extreme poverty. Nearly 33,000 children of the region are engaged in different hazardous work to support their families. These children, who are supposed to be in the classrooms, have been struggling day and night in different fields, said a survey report conducted by students of the Anthropology Department of Rajshahi University (RU) recently. The survey report says most of the children are working at welding workshops, garages, tea stalls, hotels and restaurants. Many of them work for only free meals without any wages. Children here are pulling rickshaw carts, working at pottery shops, small and medium factories and constriction and also at the houses of affluent people. They are even working in bidi factories. Respiratory trouble is very common among the children who are working at bidi and welding factories. Md Asif, 11 of Shampur area under Paba Upazila said his father is a day labourer and mother is a maid servant. Their earnings do not enough to meet up the total expenditure of the family. "That is why I am working at a local tea stall", he added. Prof Abdur Rahman Siddiqi, a senior professor of the Sociology Department of the university, said International labour law forbids child labour under the age of 15. But it is not followed in our country.
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child labour, Rajasthan, Rajshahi, poverty, hazardous work, survey report, respiratory trouble, International Labour Law, Sociology Department
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