(This article was published in the Business Line print edition dated June 22, 2012)
Lost childhood
All work, no play: A khasi boy collects sand from the bank of a stream in Cherrapunjee in Meghalaya on Thursday. A large number of children in the State are working in coal mines. NGO reports claim that children mostly in the age group of 10-17 years work in ‘inhuman’ conditions and lack of medical and other safety standards in the mines. — Ritu Raj Konwar
