Rag pickers of Mohali on the move to collest garbage from the streets.Photo Courtsey/Amar Ujjala/Vishal Shankar

These photographs from one of the villages named Jyanti Majri, which falls under District Mohali, Punjab and is hardly 8 km away from Chandigarh.
These children are not exactly working but for cooking food at their place they have visit the nearest jungle to collect the wood. As their parents have to work very hard to earn their two square meal. On the way of development the we still find these children spending their day to find wood rather playing or studying and developing their over all personality.

GAURAV GAUR.
Lecturer
Masters in Social Work.
Centre for Emerging Areas in Social Sciences.
Panjab University, Chandigarh
PIN – 160 014
Mob: + 91-9417143181