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Slaving for the Commonwealth Games: The child labourers put to work building a stadium in India's capital



By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 7:17 PM on 01st February 2010



At an age when children in this country are either at home playing or starting out in school these youngsters in India are putting in a day's work on a building site.


Struggling to hold up shovels which are as tall as them, they are helping to build drainage works in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Dehli in time for the Commonwealth Games which takes place this autumn.


They shovel stones into baskets which are then carried away by other children as their parents work nearby on the same construction project.



A boy struggles to hold up a shovel which is nearly the same size as him. He and the children around him are working alongside their parents at a construction project near the Commonwealth Games stadium






A girl drags a basket of stones at a drainage site near the Commonwealth Games stadium, which is due to open in October




Parents who bring their children to work on the site have been promised extra bonuses such as money for bread and milk for their children, on top of their normal pay.


Children and parents also receive an additional meal if both of them work on the site.


The Games are due to be held in the Indian capital from October 3-14, but concerns remain over construction of its sporting and transport infrastructure.


The sheer scale of the project has drawn an enormous population of migrant workers from all over India.


And now it seems children have also been drafted in to get the stadium and its surrounding area finished on time.


This week the High Court of Delhi has sought a response from the Government over the alleged failure to provide all the benefits of labour laws to workers involved in construction work for the coming Commonwealth Games.

The Commonwealth Games Federation has repeatedly expressed concern about the slow pace of work for the Games, which will involve 6,000 athletes drawn from the former British Empire


Parents who bring their children to work on the site have been promised extra bonuses such as bread and milk, on top of their normal pay
Workers are being paid below the minimum wage in order to complete these projects whilst also being forced to live and work under sub-standard conditions.
The Commonwealth Games Federation has repeatedly expressed concern about the slow pace of work for the Games, which will involve 6,000 athletes drawn from the former British Empire competing in 17 sports.
Federation president Mike Fennell said in December he was distressed by a report by the CGF evaluation commission that two major venues would not be ready until June, barely three months before the opening ceremony.
The commission said that work on the Nehru stadium, where the opening and closing ceremonies and the athletics programme will be held, and the swimming complex, was way behind schedule.

At an age when children in this country are either at home playing or starting out in school these youngsters in India are putting in a day's work on a building site

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium goes up in New Delhi ahead of the October 2010 Commonwealth Games
 

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at least they are getting some nice exercise unlike the fat kids in america
 

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These families are not slaves, and the reason they have traveled to New Delhi is because they can make more there than they can working in subsistence agriculture.

These children were almost certainly already working just as hard in the rural shitholes they came from.

I'm not saying its anything other than tragic, but the problem here is poverty, not the employers that are giving them an opportunity to make more money. If you legislate to stop these children working, the result is that they will probably go hungry.
 
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Pros:
- Bonuses for parents
- Milk and bread for children
- Keeps them off the streets
- Speeds up production due to increased hours

Cons:
-Western media turn it into a massive beatup.

Overall: Pro.
 

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The western nations were built on the backs of child labor.

The conditions in 17 century Britain were worse than this.
 

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To be honest build stadiums is a better answer than

"Nuke Pakistan"
 

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Pros:
- Bonuses for parents
- Milk and bread for children
- Keeps them off the streets
- Speeds up production due to increased hours

Cons:
-Western media turn it into a massive beatup.

Overall: Pro
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increased size for emphasis
 

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Con: Keeps them out of school.
Con: keeps them from developing as normal, healthy children, instead forcing them to become underage 'wage slaves'.


I don't know how the fuck anyone could think that child labour could be anything but a big, fat con.
 

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Hahahahahhahahah dude there are no schools for them
 

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Oh yeah, and I suppose you know.

EDIT: Besides, that's a terrible attitude to have. 'Oh, never mind trying to improve their livelihoods, we'll just commit them to a shit life right now because no schools exist right now that they could be educated in'. It takes greater willpower than that to enact the sort of positive change that these kids so obviously need.
 
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It's the best of a bad situation
 

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Con: Keeps them out of school.
Con: keeps them from developing as normal, healthy children, instead forcing them to become underage 'wage slaves'.


I don't know how the fuck anyone could think that child labour could be anything but a big, fat con.
Because life on the streets, living at or below the poverty line, with no access to any form of education really allows them to develop "as normal healthy children," right?

EDIT: Besides, that's a terrible attitude to have. 'Oh, never mind trying to improve their livelihoods, we'll just commit them to a shit life right now because no schools exist right now that they could be educated in'. It takes greater willpower than that to enact the sort of positive change that these kids so obviously need.
Do you live in a bubble?
Why don't you go become Miss Universe or something.... Stop poverty, find world peace.
 

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