The ascendency of India as an economic world power

India has banned child labor recently but still thousands of children are employed illegally in hazardous works. Most of these children do not get any salary and have to work 12-15 hours a day. Workers of Bachpan Bachao Andolan (a non-governmental organization) could help 50 children to be freed from bondage. IHT reported:

The children, all boys ages eight to 14, are sons of poor farm laborers in eastern India's Bihar state. They had been brought to New Delhi to work in small factories making elaborately embroidered fabric called zari.

The embroidery requires working with glittering synthetic fibers and tiny needles, with which the children often hurt themselves.

"We freed these 50 children after some frantic parents came to us saying that they were unable to get in touch with their children," said Kailash Satyarthi of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Children Mission, the group that freed the young workers.

The sad part is that these children are not totally free yet. They have uncertain future ahead of them and there is every possibility that their parents may force them to bondage again because of poverty. Indian government has banned child labor but is not doing anything to eradicate poverty.