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| 14 APRIL 2009 |
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The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) brings home to the people that the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP’s) propaganda drive for adoption of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh governance and development model is baseless and far from truth.
According to National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, of the two lakh odd workers in Gujarat cotton fields alone, 33 percent are child workers below 14 years of age, who face exploitations like non-payment of wages, physical abuses and health problems besides they are under paid. The Commission report further reveals that Gujarat has the highest number of the child labourers. About 4.8 percent of total work forces in the state are child workers. Every 18th child in the state is working or searching for job instead of going to school. Gujarat is also enjoying yet another dubious distinction where largest number of poverty driven women resort to surrogacy to pay off family loans, find food for their family and fund education of children or build house.
Madhya Pradesh tops hunger index in the country, reveals first ever India State Hunger Index. The state comes under extremely alarming situation on the scrutiny of child malnutrition, rates of child mortality and proportion of calorie deficient people, and even below the poorest African countries of Ethiopia and Chad, the Index maintains.
Surely, the BJP ruled states of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh couldn’t be thought to be a role model of governance and development, given the situation as it is. |
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(Abdul Khaliq) |
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