"I want to be a doctor when I grow up. I like the way they order everyone and make sick people okay,'' said a 10-year-old ragpicker boy, Sagar. He said that he was not aware that one has to go to school first to become a doctor.
A seven-year-old girl at Navi Mumbai, Anita, who earns over Rs 150 per day by begging, said that she wanted to become an office executive. She too had no idea that a basic education is needed to do so. "I can count from 1 to 10. In the night I watch TV and then go to sleep,'' she told TOI.
A barely four-year-old girl who sweeps in local trains with a tiny broom so as to coerce commuters to give her money, said that she "does not know'' what she wants to become when she grows up.
The most moving sight was that of a five-year-old beggar boy in Kharghar, with his right eye blinded and bandaged. His woman handler quickly fled with the boy as soon as a few local people started questioning how he got injured in the eye.
It is rather sad and cruel and many children are deliberately made handicapped in order to extract that feeling of 'pity' from citizens so that they can earn more through begging.
On Children's Day at least, the state must mull over these issues concerning the future citizens of India.
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