We should start with the child ?
Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.
The people of India are still amongst the backward countries in the world and when we examine our people, we find that most of our people are illiterate, unemployed, poor, houseless, beggars, wearing rags, hungry, weak and ill and it must mean that in 1947 and on ward we could not take right steps. Had we started bettering the position of our children at that very stage, during these six decades none would have been suffering from these ills.
But it is on record that the people of India did not take right steps at that very stage and the people who had been given charge of governing and administering the country were also not capable and they too ignored the child at that time. Even today we can start with the child and within the next twenty years, we shall be having all the youths with proper education, with proper training and with proper adjustment at work from where the man may be drawing proper income with which he could be able to run his family administration and he could be free from dependency upon others. But here in India none is taking care of the child and he is still found begging, collecting valuables from the garbage, found working in hotels, tea shops and even in factories. What we can expect from such children. We must learn a lesson from history and we must start with the child. All the children must be taken as national asset and they must be brought up by the state. We should not leave the child at the mercy of the parents because they are not in a position to give proper protection to the child. The whole nation and every man of this country must have a look on the child and he must ensure that the child is given proper education, training and proper adjustment at work/ A nation is great when its people are great and when most of the people are illiterate, untrained and unadjusted at work and are dependant upon others, we cannot expect that we shall take further steps towards progress.
