The student fraternity of 3rd semester PR students of MA in Mass Communication, Centre For Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, Dibrugarh University on Saturday organised an awareness campaign against child labour through a wall painting session in Dibrugarh at Thana Charali and near Santipara rail gate. The purpose of the campaign was to create awareness among people and help them to understand the impacts of child labour. Azmee Nasreen Rahman, Nituma Sharma, Sandipta Mazumder, Karabi Gogoi, Kaustav Kashyap, Munni Kumari Gupta, Aditya Mishra participated in the programme along with other students of Dibrugarh University. As many as 15 students took part in the activity.
Aditya Kumar Chatterjee,the secretary of NGO Bal Sakha was the guest of honour in this wall painting session today. Chatterjee said, “Child labour is a black stain on the civil society. We appeal to everyone irrespective of caste, religion, language to come together to work against child labour and build a protected and better civilised society for our future generation.”
He added, “Child labour is a rising crime which forces small children to lost their childhood, stopping them from earning knowledge and their growth in every aspect i.e physically, socially and mentally. So steps like these are utmost necessary.”
The program was sponsored by VINTAGE STREET CAFE and DU ADDA Restaurant.