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| Laws violated daily with impunity | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 20
Of many laws followed more in their violation than in observance, the three which come to notice daily of the common man are ban on child labour, checking pollution and environment protection and smoking in public places. It is not only a man in the street who comes across open violation of these laws, even the authorities concerned supposed to enforce these laws as well as the high officers in the administration and politicians look the other way over mockery of these laws.
Chotu, age 12 still works in the tea shop and dhaba, helping in cooking as well as serving tea and snacks to the shop keepers by remaining on his feet the whole day. Factories and workshops too continue engaging lads of 14 to 16 years in their workshops, on odd jobs of beating hammer, soldering and welding, unbolting punctured tyres on the cars and then bolting again. Guddy of 10 years and Baby of 12 years still sweep brooms in the households of the people, besides helping their mothers in sweeping the lanes and drains. The rag pickers of tender age are still found daily fiddling with garbage dumps and crumbs thrown out by households, in plastic bags in the streets.
The morning walkers on Residency Road and Rajinder Bazar areas are daily witness to a little boy of 14 lighting fire in the oven, pouring kerosene on the wet fire woods and burning matchstick, with thick smoke causing infection to his lungs, more than bringing tears in eyes. The passers by as well as the adjoining shopkeepers sulking over tears rolling down their eyes and suffocation caused to them. Similarly those passing by Kanak Mandi in the early hours are daily witness to a young lad of hardly 15, keeping the earthen oven on the pavement outside the dhaba and burning fire in it leading to thick smoke causing environment pollution as well as consuming the lungs of the tender youth.
The police as well as the enlightened citizens are witness to smoking of cigarette by the edicts in public transport as well as in government offices. Hardly anybody take serious notice of it and objects this uncivilized act, which is prohibited by law, involving punishment. And if one takes the courage to raise objection to smoking in public place, he is subjected to ridicule and asked even by the non smokers to leave the place, instead of asking the smoker to give up doing uncivic as well as unlawful act.
One reason why these laws are violated with impunity is the lack of a single identified authority to enforce these. If at all an agency or agencies to enforce and regulate these laws has been appointed, the people in general have least knowledge about the same. The onus is on the victim, who feels about the laws in these regards being violated, to search the agency to lodge his complaint against the offender, who leaves no proof of having done any violation of the law.
As far law banning child labour is concerned, the same cannot be feasible unless it is accompanied by measures to make good the loss to the meager family income of families, living at substantial level or below poverty line. Where the small children are the only earning hands in a family, until the government takes responsibility for the maintenance of the family, banning of child labour proves inhuman.
The shopkeepers who regularly pay the municipal safai karanchari, to render additional service to them by openly burning the packing material on the road side like hay and plastic etc, creating pollution and disturbing the environment, have least respect for the civic sense and still least fear of the authority that can take action against them. No wonder that tones of used plastic carry bags and waste packing material is found littered on the lanes and choking the drains.
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