Nabbing Childhood from the Innocent

Mumbai: You might have visited several times to public places like railway stations, bus stations and other such public gatherings for many purposes and you also might have concentrated your focused to many aspects of these places, but have you ever pondered over the life of the people living there permanently and dependent totally on these public gatherings for their livelihood.



Such a scene can be easily witnessed in various stations of Mumbai, the heart of India so called as the city of dreams including Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT). This terminus has a wide range of helpless people and worse part of the fact is that many of them are children below the age of ten years.

At this station one can easily find small innocent kids engaged begging for their livelihood and to make the situation to seem more pathetic they are usually seen with their siblings who are less than one year in age. It is becoming the family business of these innocent kids who are actually in an age of getting primary education but are compelled to work like this in order to sustain themselves.

The story does not end here; there are also kids outside the stations who are engaged in selling pan masalas, cigarettes and other addictive drugs and the majority sellers are those who are either below the age of ten years or women to attract majority of the customers. It is really a matter of shame for the society that these groups of people are engaged in this type of business.

But here comes the moral and social responsibility of the society. Why the society is ignoring these groups. Why they are getting encouraged to do business? Do we have any responsibility towards them as humans?

As a human beings we are in many aspects superior to many other animals so socially also prove the same. Why we encourage them to go ahead with begging and why don't we go for adopting one of them and give them a chance to prove themselves. There are still such people in this world who are interested to provide some of them the same living standard as enjoyed by others in the same society.