Child worker found chained in Delhi eatery, rescued

New Delhi: A child labourer, who was trafficked from his home in Bihar to Delhi, was found chained and working in a roadside restaurant here. He was later rescued by the labour department and a child rights NGO.

R.S. Chaurasia of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), the NGO that assisted the rescue mission, Thursday said in a statement that the boy went missing from his native village in Katihar district of Bihar in August 2009 before being found at an eatery in central Delhi this month. Read More................Child worker found chained in Delhi eatery, rescued

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Kids in place of Oxen in fields

In a bizzare incident here is a farm in Bihar's Vaishali district, where a 10 year old has replaced an ox at a plough which belongs to the family of the Union Minister for Rural Development, RJD's Raghuvansh Pratap Singh.

The minister's brother, Raghuraj Singh says that the fields are too slippery after the recent floods and its too dangerous for bullocks and a tractor would skid, so he hires children instead.

''We get children because there is a shortage of labour. The fields are too wet for the bullocks. So we have got children to plough the field before sowing,'' said Raguraj Singh, Farm owner.

The boy and his father are equally matter of fact about this. For them, it's a question of working on the fields or starving.

''We work to live. My feet and arms hurt but I still need to work if I want to eat,'' said Sonelal Kumar, Child labourer.''Bullocks can't tread on this ground. So we have to do it ourselves with the children,'' said Ramkrishna Singh, Farmer.

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