Update: The blogger on my request attached the source of the data (TOI) to his blog post. See here (look at the map). Thanks Arun. Chances are this data comes from ILO (International Labour Organisation).
June 22:
According to this blog post:
Kerala has the lowest share of child workers with 0.47% of the total population engaged in child labour. North Eastern states have high rates of child labour with Mizoram topping the list with 12.34%, followed by Sikkim (12.04%) and Nagaland (8.48%).
I find it hard to hear that Mizoram tops the list. I asked the blog owner Arun Rajagopal where he got this data. The Mumbai Edition of Times of India, he said.
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June 23rd, 2007 at 6:33 am
Child labor tih hian eng ber nge a kawh ka hre emawni chu aw, ka ti. Naupang kum tling lovin amah (leh a chhungte) chawm nan hlawh (a tam leh tlem chu thukhat ni se) neia hna a thawh hi a ni ber mai em ka tia. Nu leh pate’n an fate hlawh nei ni lem lova hna an thawh tir (tui chawi, insuk, leh a aia hahthlak deuhte pawh) ang hi chu child labor ni chiah po’n ka hre lem lo, ka ngaihdan chuan. Heti zawnga ngaihtuah chuan child labor hi an tam vak lem don emni chu aw ka ti mai mai.
Naupang kum 18 tling lo inhlawhfa zawng zawngte an chhiar vek anih chuan kan tam phian maithei bawk. Kei ngei pawh hi kum 18 ka tlin hma kum thum vel atanga nitin inhlawhfa thin ka ni. Mahse, ka chhungte min tur luih emaw, chaw ka nghei dawn vang emaw ni lovin, ‘sum’ ka duh vanga inhlawhfa ka ni. (Awmthei chhungkua kan nih loh avangin thiante neih ang neih ve duh chuan mahnia ka hlawhchhuah a ngai). Keimah ang hi tam tak an awm ka ring a, chungte chu child labor-a an chhiar vek don a nih chuan kan tam viau ang. Mahse, chu chu ‘child labor’ ka hriat leh ngaih dan nen inpersan tak a ni.
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June 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 am
He record cu va mak teh tlat ve ooooo…. a dik tak tak anih ngai chuan hmabak a va englo ve…
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June 23rd, 2007 at 11:36 am
Oops…. read the fisrt sentence as,”Child labor tih hian eng ber nge a kawh ka hre chiang lo emawni chu aw, ka ti”…. istead of “Child labor tih hian eng ber nge a kawh ka hre emawni chu aw, ka ti”… sorry.
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June 23rd, 2007 at 11:58 am
In our society, children are supposed to help their parents and elders in housework and even other manual work, especially during school vacation and holidays. Otheriwise, they will be called lazy kids. Child labour, as in child employment in factories, etc is a different matter. Since there are few factories while we have battalions of unemployed adults, I do not think there are many children in organised sector.
Loooking at the standard of government schools and extent of poverty in the villages during the long reign of Congress and MNF dynasties, it is no wonder that children have to work. There is nothing to be ashamed of.
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June 23rd, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I question the way the statistical measurement is taken by the Mumbai edition Times of India, I highly doubt about being Mizoram the highest in child labour, including Sikkim and our North east brothers sisters like Nagaland.
Like Val_Brosky said there is a different between children working to earn some money as a pocket money not because of starvation, and children who work as an organise labour. Also part of our Mizo tradition is to help our elders, teenage help their parents in farming, in cities, they help in cleaning the house, feeding pigs, gardening the courtyard, watering flowers etc etc. So here is the wide gap between the so called child labour that is organise labour and being working to earn some money before 18 yrs old.
In my opinion, there are so many other mainland Indian states that can top the list of child labour, even just from the fact of them being practising caste system.
I challenge their definition of ‘child labour’ and the way it is ‘measure’ by this newspaper, they should come and see Mizoram in their own eyes, study our culture and society, and even compare with their own caste ridden society, and then they should conclude, and not like this publishing something which is so baseless that lack a deep analysis.
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June 23rd, 2007 at 7:01 pm
This is absolute rubbish….In Mizoram most, if not all, children go to school. There is no chance of Mizoram topping in child labour! Times of India, do your homework properly…
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June 23rd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
nia child labour chu a tih theih ka ring miah lo naupang tuichawi tihvel te chu an om teuh ang chu an tihtur alom nau awmte nu leh pa kan lei pathian te kan pui tihna child labour a nilo re re
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June 23rd, 2007 at 10:03 pm
marie ngaihdan khi ka tompui e…..
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June 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
me three
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June 24th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Me four yaaaa
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June 25th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Child labor an tih a kum bi an thliarna hi kum 18 chin hnuailam ni lovin kum 14 chin hnuailam a ni awm asin mole. Kum 18 turah ka lo ngai ve ngar ngar a….heheh
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June 25th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Me Five daaaaaaaa
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June 26th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Sangzuala Hmar-in alo report lehpek a niang
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June 26th, 2007 at 10:54 am
ni leh pek maithei a ni, hei hi chu protest a ngai, tunge TOI mumbai edition e-mail add nei han post teh u, direct in kan protest teh ang, ILO ah pawh, Mizorama naupang in hna an thawh dan leh an ni ina naupang hnathawk an tih a in ang lo tih hi hrilh hriat a ngai, a reng reng thu ah ILO ho tih a nih chuan eng agency in nge mizoramah chuan survey la a, ka naupan lai a kathirchhe zawn leh chanchin bu chhia ka hralh kha Child Labor a nilo, ka comics lei na tura ka tih ve liau liau a ni…het saaaaallllllllaaaaaaaaaa
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June 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Children in Mizoram are not forced to work and very few are working in car washing centre and tea stall. According to The state Human Rights and Law Networks’ Director Vanramchhuangi, in Aizawl District the number of below 18 yrs old workers are about 50, Aizawl is the state’s capital and it has the highest number of child labour in Mizoram. HRLN has an exclusive survey on this issue. I feared the obove survey may not be a reliable source.
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June 26th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
ka lo hmuh ve dan chuan, naupang hnathok ka hmuh te reng reng hi chhungkaw khawsak harsa ve tak tak ni tlangpuiiin ka lo hmu ve ringot a, chumi phenah chuan thil dang ka hmu tel bok(ni thanin ka hria) kan ram economy pachhiat ziate, ram hruaitu ten tihtur an ngah zia te ka hmu tel bok tlatin ka hria, chhungkaw pa berin a nupui fanaute eitur a hlawhchhuah zawhloh a vang leh a tulnain a ur chhuahte an ni,(a zat hi chu a dik leh dikloh chu thuhran nise) an chhungkaw economy in a zir em vang (zirloh vang xok nge) leh, kan ram hruaitu ten mahni pumpui tihpuar ringot an ngaihtuah avanga he thil hi lo om ta ni berin ka hriaaa…
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June 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
[…] Update – 26 June 2007 – Never did I know that this blog post would be the storm in the teacup in this hugely popular Manipur-centric blog. The blog owner Benjamin Rualthanzauva has been hot on my heels to provide the source. Following his request, I added the scanned version the newspaper article yesterday & today I have hunted down the online source at indiatimes.com. Here’s the link. […]
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June 26th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Children helping their parents can not be termed as child labour. How can Mizoram tops in child labour. Tunge report-tu niang aw ? Report tur kan hre lo a nih chuan ngawih mai mai a tha zawk em ?
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June 26th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
No matter the source is be it International Labour Organization (or Times of India, Mumbai Edition), I still question this report and its measuring methods, Mizoram population is 9 lakhs approximately, in my point of view, almost all Mizo children do work, specially on weekends when there is no school like helping in household work etc. Like i mention before there is a difference between an organise child labour and the kind of work done in our Mizoram, ofcourse there are children who are working in carwash, workshop garage etc, but overall, Mizoram cannot be on the top of this labour list.
For all those who studing/working in mainland India saw their society, their ‘child labour’, including their so wide gap of high and low class and their caste system, and almost all mainland Indian states have much higher population and then ofcourse the number of children will also be higher, and to top it of with their culture of having servants, and very often they keep child servant, keeping in mind with our tradition and culture and theirs, it is just not possible to be the top on this list.
I personally have this opinion that eveything that seems bad is put a blame on north east people by mainland Indian, they have a little knowledge about us, infact almost none, when we know their state capital since we were in middle school, their college going students also do not know any capital in north east, except Imphal, they think all north east people are Manipuris, which is wrong. They have no idea about our culture system, our tradition and practices, so a good example is this ILO report, be it international report, the reporter must be a mainland Indians who make a conclusion without coming to Mizoram and without proper study and analyse of our society.
I do not care about the age definition – 18 or 14 yrs, my main concern is the reporter understanding of north east society and its structure specially in this regard Mizoram.
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June 27th, 2007 at 10:28 am
BPL Census vang lek luk hi ni lo maw he thil hi?? Child Labor ah chuan kan Top hauh lovang!! Small Scale industry ah pawh ‘mini’ lutuk ramah hian.. SSA hmalakna in tunah phei chuan every child above 6 te chu education pek vek anni lawm ni?
BPL kan in ziah tam lutuk vang hian veng hlun tak2 te pawh ‘Slum Area’ mai an lo nih hlawm le.. census atang chuan.. brother!!!
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April 12th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
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July 27th, 2011 at 12:45 am
ÐÀÇÁÎÐÊÀ È ÄÅÌÎÍÒÀÆ ÇÄÀÍÈÉ È ÑÎÎÐÓÆÅÍÈÉ…
minny…
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