If someone asks what was the best time of their life?’ So almost everyone has the same answer: ‘childhood’. Childhood is a feeling that stays inside a person for a lifetime. That innocence of childhood, pranks, games, fights! What do you do? Always miss that little kid. All this is seen in many people. It is always celebrated on the 14th of the month of November. On this Children’s Day 2021, we can rekindle a long lost childhood together with children.
We always think that we have grown up. We have matured and are busy with our work. As time passes, we get used to that work. But no matter how mature we become in our life! Childhood resides in our souls. An example of this is seen when we have children. Together with them, we come back to our childhood. This is the happiness that we can give to our children. Due to this, this feeling remains in their life forever.
In childhood, children have unique questions about why these things are like this, why they are not like that. They find this world exciting and full of unanswered questions. Always be lost in your own thoughts. They don’t mean anything to anyone. They just remain lost in their own world.
Why do we celebrate Children’s Day
Children’s Day is an event celebrated annually in honour of children. The date of celebrating it varies from country to country. International Children’s Day was declared for the first time in 1925 in Geneva during the World Conference on Child Welfare.
Children’s Day is celebrated as a tribute to the great man of India “Jawaharlal Nehru”. He has also been the first Prime Minister of India. Nehru had great affection for children. Because of this love, he was also called ‘Chacha Nehru’. He founded the Children’s Film Society of India in 1955 to make indigenous cinema for children. There is no gazetted holiday on Children’s Day. Rather, various programs like competitions, music and dance performances, etc., are organized in schools on this day.
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Who started Children’s Day
This day is celebrated in the United Nations. Before 1964 in India, Children’s Day was celebrated on 20 November. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru died in 1964. After this, it was decided that his birth anniversary (14 November) should be celebrated as Children’s Day. After independence in India, the first Children’s Day was celebrated in 1959.
Nehru Ji was an able administrator. He established the most prominent educational institutions in India. AIIMS, IIT and IIM were established under his leadership. Nehru had created a legacy of education for the children. He said, “Today’s children will make the future of tomorrow’s India. The way we nurture them will decide the future of the country.”
What rights does a child have?
The main objective of this day is to raise awareness about the rights, care and education of children. According to the Constitution of India, the rights of children are:
- Right to free and compulsory elementary education for all children of 6-14 years
- Right to protection from employment which may be hazardous
- early childhood care
- Right to protection from abuse
- The right to be protected from economic necessity to enter professions according to one’s age or strength
- Right to equal facilities and opportunities to develop
- right to freedom and dignity
- Guaranteed protection of childhood and youth against child abuse
