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They run at least for 12 hours, get Tk 35-100

Emkan Hossain
It's almost twilight and their energetic and enthusiastic run they began in the morning has slowed down to a crawl. They can hardly walk now and would resign (from work) soon.
As soon as they are home they would fall into an exhausted slumber only to generate strength to wake up early in the morning to begin their run again.
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children working at four rope factories under the Buriganga Bridge in Aganagar in Keraniganj at daily wages ranged between Tk 35 and Tk 100.
One of them is six-year-old Mamun, who joins work in the morning and runs at least for 12 hours tliroughout the day.
Like the other children, Mamun starts his run as if he were running to win the title of a sprint competition. But unlike sprinters he has to cross the same track again and again throughout the day to hang jute strings.
Mamun has to run on a track of 10.16 metres, the distance between two pillars, between which jute strings are hung repeatedly Reproducing rope.
The little children have to run, or at least walk very fast, but can't stop in the process.
Mamun's eight-year-old brother Suman also work at the same factory and both of them earn Ik 100 per day.
"We both give our motherTk 600 every week. Our family runs on our income, while our father's earning is used to pay back loans," this is all Mamun could say while running with a jute stringon his back.
"My mother borrowed money to'pay back the loans taken by my father on different occasions," Suman mumbled while explaining the reasons for their work
Rakibul. aged around eight, said he hangs the strings only for Tk 35 a day. He said they got a new colleague Ismail who was yet to know his wage.
None of these children has a fixed income as their daily wages vary on performance and none of them knows if they’ will be working tomorrow. Yet these poor kids continue to bear the burden of their families.
"1 have a debt of Tk 50-60 thousand in my locality. I cannot bear the expenses of my seven-member family and had to send my child to the factory," said Sirajul Islam, day labourer and father of child labourer Sohag.
"The guardians can't engage their under-14 children in work They also can't strike any deal with anyone for employing their children in any work when they are under 14," says Sultan Uddin AJunad, assistant executive director of Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies, quoting the Bangladesh Labour Law, 2006.
As the twilight approaches, the children look like working at an oil mill, all exhausted and wearinggreasy shine of sweat.
And as they slouch back home, they’ all look strange as the whitish jute particles stick to all over their bodies.