New Delhi, May 16: Goindi, a 14-year-old from Jharkhand, used to eat dough and raw rice in the middle of the night stealing from her employer’s kitchen here.
Durga, 14, was beaten up and kept without food and clothes through out the day for her every innocent mistake at the house of a software engineer in Bangalore.
Geeta, 13, had to turn about 1,000 bricks at a kiln in Orissa for a meagre Rs 10 every day for more than six months.
What these children have in common is that they are among the fortunate few who have been rescued and having the opportunity to go to school.
But, there are thousands others who are spending most of their time in factories, shops, roadside eateries or at their employers’ house as domestic help.
–PTI