The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 prohibits the employment of children below the age of 14 years in India. Source :
https://www.ilo.org/newdelhi/areasofwork/child-labour/legal-framework/WCMS_486746/lang--en/index.htm
So, if these mines are employing 4 to 5 year old children to do these jobs, they are breaking the law and you should highlight this issue and embarrass the Indian government on social media platforms. Blame the Indian government for not taking action against these practices.
B.t.w, how is this a Bitcoin related topic?
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I completely agree with you about child slavery, it must end at all cost. But when you talk specifically about MICA mining, I may not agree entirely!! Let's look at some facts,
1. India is the 8th highest producer of MICA. China, Russia and even South Korea is way ahead of India.
2. The contribution of MICA mining in GDP is very insignificant and doesn't come in the top 10 list of mined minerals.
Child slavery is a big problem in India's mining industry. But the issue of child slavery comes from sheer poverty and not from Mining a mineral. Our politicians should have addresses this issue long back but they didn't do anything other than filing their own pocket. I am confident that the situation will remain same for another 100 years looking at the current government.
Now talking about the health issues. Marble mining causes more health issues than MICA or any other industry! 90% of marble laborers face respiratory issues due to lack of safety equipments. Do we ban marble mining as well?
Banning a product is not a solution to a problem. Rather we need a strict law to ensure that the manufacturers of beauty products pay a certain percentage of their revenue to the welfare of their labors and to ensure proper facilities to them! The companies making billions from beauty products need to ensure minimum safety equipments at their mines. Even though nothing is going to change overnight, but at least set us up to the right path!
If banning MICA can bring the solution to the child slavery, we need to ban Coffee products and Diamonds first! Do some research and you will understand why I am saying this!!
1. India is the 8th highest producer of MICA. China, Russia and even South Korea is way ahead of India.
2. The contribution of MICA mining in GDP is very insignificant and doesn't come in the top 10 list of mined minerals.
Child slavery is a big problem in India's mining industry. But the issue of child slavery comes from sheer poverty and not from Mining a mineral. Our politicians should have addresses this issue long back but they didn't do anything other than filing their own pocket. I am confident that the situation will remain same for another 100 years looking at the current government.
Now talking about the health issues. Marble mining causes more health issues than MICA or any other industry! 90% of marble laborers face respiratory issues due to lack of safety equipments. Do we ban marble mining as well?
Banning a product is not a solution to a problem. Rather we need a strict law to ensure that the manufacturers of beauty products pay a certain percentage of their revenue to the welfare of their labors and to ensure proper facilities to them! The companies making billions from beauty products need to ensure minimum safety equipments at their mines. Even though nothing is going to change overnight, but at least set us up to the right path!
If banning MICA can bring the solution to the child slavery, we need to ban Coffee products and Diamonds first! Do some research and you will understand why I am saying this!!
Not only in India, such child slavery is prevailing around the globe. Recently saw similar incident with an African country where children never go to schools. They are always on the gold mines. With what they get they make their living, even if they get good sum of gold they don't know to find a trader and sell it. The intermediate person fix the price for the gold and he gets big selling it. Maybe someday God willing this needs to change and everyone should be fulfilled with their basic life needs.
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Do we ever take A moment to see if the products we are using are Mica free ? You may never know where it came from . Maybe we all are just unfortunately the cause they have to go and work daily .
We aren't employing them , we are leaving them to die at the cost of cheap products available to us.
I want everyone here to take a moment and think about what we indirectly are doing to their childhood,is this actually worth making the economy sustainable ?
The poor people without education just keep revolving in the cycle of poverty and their kids also happen to have same fate.
This is so unfortunate for them but we can actually make their lives a little better .
* Urging the government to give better wages and opening more jobs for them
*Making sure to not use products containing Mica or at least making sure that they are cruelty free .
*Throwing these bribe taking officials in Jail
*Maybe we could help those poor families not by giving money but by telling them about how they can teach their kids for free in government schools and encouraging them.
We aren't employing them , we are leaving them to die at the cost of cheap products available to us.
I want everyone here to take a moment and think about what we indirectly are doing to their childhood,is this actually worth making the economy sustainable ?
The poor people without education just keep revolving in the cycle of poverty and their kids also happen to have same fate.
This is so unfortunate for them but we can actually make their lives a little better .
* Urging the government to give better wages and opening more jobs for them
*Making sure to not use products containing Mica or at least making sure that they are cruelty free .
*Throwing these bribe taking officials in Jail
*Maybe we could help those poor families not by giving money but by telling them about how they can teach their kids for free in government schools and encouraging them.
These are the obvious steps to take, on paper. However, when it comes to execution, given the lucrative profit margins for businesses that hire child workers it's simply unfeasible to expect that everyone will comply with regulations, which I'm fairly sure has already been implemented.
Plus, do you really think that just by "urging the government to give better wages" to children, that they're actually going to receive better wages? Govermnents can impose all sorts of minimum wage regulations, enterprise agreements, whatever; but do you really think that employers are going to care, or that a black market for child labour won't simply form?
It's a huge issue that requires structural reforms that I don't see can happen in a short period of time, and certainly not as easily as you may think.
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This is a good answer to those who claim that the cryptocurrency will soon be ubiquitous or even the only means of payment. It is good to live in a developed industrial center and in an apartment with all the conveniences to fantasize about how a cryptocurrency will quickly spread throughout the world, because everyone wants to use it. Such people are far from real life, which flows in countries of relatively low incomes of the population.
It's harsh but true.Actually , maybe we just need to strengthen our economy first, make living conditions far more accessible and hygienic for the poor people who are endlessly revolving in the viscous cycle of death and poverty.
Then if we could provide free internet after offcourse providing proper meal for them and free mobile devices, then only we can dream of a future like that.
Only if they could study first , then maybe Bitcoins can even provide jobs for them but primarily more important is how we get there.
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Let me just start out by saying how our economy grows ? We make something in the industries , we market it , we also export it , it brings benefits for the countrie's economy.
Do you guys know about Mica ?
It is a mineral used everywhere , from the beauty industry to the toothpastes , shampoo's everything . India is a country with the richest mines of Mica , they inturn supply it to other countries.
But why am I wasting your time about all this information?
Well unfortunately the one's mining Mica is are not the industries or some big machines , it is actually kids. From the age of 4-5 they start doing labour and these mines are unregulated , being run by people hiding from the eyes of law , they actually bribe the officers and they run amok doing illegal things .
Unfortunately due to poverty people have no other choice , they don't force their kids to go but to even get a quarter a day means life and death situation for them.
What are the consequences ?
* Kids start working from such an early age that they have no access to school
* No education , No good living facilities , they often fall ill due to poor sanitary conditions
*Sometimes the mines ,they collapse , small kids die and people just hide this to not create a uproar .
* Some get respiratory diseases and suffer for lifetime.
In their age to play with toys , they work using a shovel much heavier than their weight .
Do we ever take A moment to see if the products we are using are Mica free ? You may never know where it came from . Maybe we all are just unfortunately the cause they have to go and work daily .
We aren't employing them , we are leaving them to die at the cost of cheap products available to us.
I want everyone here to take a moment and think about what we indirectly are doing to their childhood,is this actually worth making the economy sustainable ?
The poor people without education just keep revolving in the cycle of poverty and their kids also happen to have same fate.
This is so unfortunate for them but we can actually make their lives a little better .
* Urging the government to give better wages and opening more jobs for them
*Making sure to not use products containing Mica or at least making sure that they are cruelty free .
*Throwing these bribe taking officials in Jail
*Maybe we could help those poor families not by giving money but by telling them about how they can teach their kids for free in government schools and encouraging them.
Mica is very important economically , it is like the cement of the beauty industry but let's just protect the kids who suffers massively from their side effects.
Let me just start out by saying how our economy grows ? We make something in the industries , we market it , we also export it , it brings benefits for the countrie's economy.
Do you guys know about Mica ?
It is a mineral used everywhere , from the beauty industry to the toothpastes , shampoo's everything . India is a country with the richest mines of Mica , they inturn supply it to other countries.
But why am I wasting your time about all this information?
Well unfortunately the one's mining Mica is are not the industries or some big machines , it is actually kids. From the age of 4-5 they start doing labour and these mines are unregulated , being run by people hiding from the eyes of law , they actually bribe the officers and they run amok doing illegal things .
Unfortunately due to poverty people have no other choice , they don't force their kids to go but to even get a quarter a day means life and death situation for them.
What are the consequences ?
* Kids start working from such an early age that they have no access to school
* No education , No good living facilities , they often fall ill due to poor sanitary conditions
*Sometimes the mines ,they collapse , small kids die and people just hide this to not create a uproar .
* Some get respiratory diseases and suffer for lifetime.
In their age to play with toys , they work using a shovel much heavier than their weight .
Do we ever take A moment to see if the products we are using are Mica free ? You may never know where it came from . Maybe we all are just unfortunately the cause they have to go and work daily .
We aren't employing them , we are leaving them to die at the cost of cheap products available to us.
I want everyone here to take a moment and think about what we indirectly are doing to their childhood,is this actually worth making the economy sustainable ?
The poor people without education just keep revolving in the cycle of poverty and their kids also happen to have same fate.
This is so unfortunate for them but we can actually make their lives a little better .
* Urging the government to give better wages and opening more jobs for them
*Making sure to not use products containing Mica or at least making sure that they are cruelty free .
*Throwing these bribe taking officials in Jail
*Maybe we could help those poor families not by giving money but by telling them about how they can teach their kids for free in government schools and encouraging them.
Mica is very important economically , it is like the cement of the beauty industry but let's just protect the kids who suffers massively from their side effects.
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