Building Blocks
Director Samik
Countries India
Duration 12 min
Synopsis
While cities across India continue to grow, both in number as well as in size, infrastructural development invokes awe, a staggering number of over 1,60,000 children in the state of West Bengal alone, toe their migrating parents to various brick kilns only to end up being used as laborers there. The administrations and the authorities continue playing naive when it comes to even accepting their existence in the kilns. Naturally when the governments do not choose to reach, facilities like education, health & nutrition and immunization also fail to reach them. These children do not know the meanings of many words, including one that could be very crucial for them, 'childhood'. System as a whole does very less than required and brags more. We, so called sensible urban people, also brag more than we carry out our responsibilities. Lives of these suffered children remains same as before. This film is an inner eye to this problem.
While cities across India continue to grow, both in number as well as in size, infrastructural development invokes awe, a staggering number of over 1,60,000 children in the state of West Bengal alone, toe their migrating parents to various brick kilns only to end up being used as laborers there. The administrations and the authorities continue playing naive when it comes to even accepting their existence in the kilns. Naturally when the governments do not choose to reach, facilities like education, health & nutrition and immunization also fail to reach them. These children do not know the meanings of many words, including one that could be very crucial for them, 'childhood'. System as a whole does very less than required and brags more. We, so called sensible urban people, also brag more than we carry out our responsibilities. Lives of these suffered children remains same as before. This film is an inner eye to this problem.