REVIEW OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF KAILASH SATYARTHI BY

ASHOK SHARMA AND KRITIKA BHARDWAJ

PART - 1

By
SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI
B.Sc (Silver Medalist)
M.Sc (Applied Physics)
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 WHAT WE WILL STUDY?

• EARLY LIFE

• BACHPAN BACHAO ANDOLAN

• GLOBAL ICON

• MESSIAH FOR THE CHILDREN

 EARLY LIFE
• He was born as Kailash Sharma on 11 January 1954, in
the Vidisha district of central Indian state of Madhya
Pradesh.

• Kailash father was Ramprasad Sharma who was a police

constable and started living uneasy life after the death of his
son Surendra in 1952.his mother name was Chironji.

• He was a very sensitive and conscious child and always

cared for others.He cried when kids troubled animals.

• He has three brothers and one sister too.Jagmohan

Sharma,Chandrabhan Sharma,Lila Sharma who was the
most pampered child and then Kailash.

• He was called Surendra in childhood but at one incident he

took Kailash as his name and from there he was called
KAILASH.
 BIRTH OF A LEGEND
• He went to Durg primary school in 1959 and was a
very bright and caring student. He shares an
incident of a cobbler that how we studied in the school
and the poor cobbler was polishing the shoes.

• He always gave his lunch to begging child.He loved

the character of Lord Rama and also organized
stalls of sharbat during Moharram.

• He collected books from the one who passed and

used to distribute it to the needy ones.With the
growing age he became more determined as ever.He
went to SS jain college for the completion of senior
secondary and there also he continued his good
deeds.

• He started helping every poor,needy and exploited

child as he grew.
 COLLEGE DAYS

• His financial condition was very bad.He completed his engineering from
the books borrowed from library and there were times when he worried
about his future.

• He was fond of organizing movements.He secured a good rank in

engineering and joined Samrat Ashok Technology institute and had
always been there for friends.

• He completed his electrical enegineering and a post-graduate degree

in high-voltage engineering. He then joined a college in Bhopal as a
lecturer for a few years.

• He also propagated the activities of arya samaj and got married to

Sumedha in 1978.
 LOVE MARRIAGE

• She as a young wife stood behind him as a pillar and was the main
support of his success when he decided to give up his career and indulge
in activism.

• On 1976 he first met Sumedha on 2nd october for publishing of an article.

In editorial Jan Gyan in Delhi.They talked on various topics and exactly
after 1 year they again met on 2nd october and this time something special
happened and both fell in love.

• They both got married in 1978.

• In 1980 couple first launched a publication called SANGHARSH JARI

RAHEGA FOR BONDAGE LABOUR.He also shifted to delhi meanwhile.
 ERADICATION OF CHILD SLAVERY
• He was very active in JP movement and also offered him to fight elections
but he refused.He worked under the tutelage of Swami agnivesh.In
1980 a social worker Ghuram Mahato told him about the exploitation
of children in Plamau.

• His team immediately went there but was attacked by the goons.That
was the incident which laid the foundation of BACHPAN BACHAO
ANDOLAN.He also went Mirzapur and Bhadohi to stop the child labour
and shares the horrific incidents.

• He went places to places but most of the time was not supported by police
and other but he himself took the task and went to high court by clicking
pictures of these incident.

• In 1998 his most ambitious project Global March against child labours was
launched which included 14000 institutions across 108 countries.
 STUDY IQ
“THE WORLD HAS NEVER BEEN UNFIT
FOR CHILDREN ITS VERY FIT.JESUS
SAY LET THE CHILDREN COME TO ME
FIRST,VEDAS PROCLAIMED THE
CHILDREN ARE SACRED SOULS AND
ISLAM TAUGHT TO SEE THE GLOW OF
GOD IN FACE OF A CHILD”
REVIEW OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF KAILASH SATYARTHI BY
ASHOK SHARMA AND KRITIKA BHARDWAJ
PART - 2

By
SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI
B.Sc (Silver Medalist)
M.Sc (Applied Physics)
Facebook: sid_educationconnect
 ERADICATION OF CHILD SLAVERY

• He struggled a lot in uniting these children to their families and

he has been attacked many times by mafia which became blood
thirsty.

• BBA Claims to free thousands of children and he also launched BAL

MITRA GRAM which is a child friendly villages in which child labour
was banned and childrens were enrolled in school.

• His efforts led to the formation of South Asian coalition on child

servitude(SACCS) Which partnered NGO in nearby
BANGLADESH,NEPAL,PAKISTAN AND SRILANKA.

• In 1994 he launched Rugmark which an initiative to certify that the

carpets are not manufactured by children.
 BACHPAN BACHAO ANDOLAN
• Vision is to create a child friendly society by creating a holistic solution and
proper atmosphere for children and had the support of top leaders of the
country like kalaam,Atal Bihari Vajpayee,Manmohan Singh etc.

• It also ensures the protection of children who have been victims of cgild
slavery.It organised many campaigns around the country for awareness
which include anti firecracker campaign(1996),Fairplay campaign(1996)
etc.

• Various marches also organised like Delhi to Kanyakumari in

1995,Calcutta to Kathmandu in 1998 etc.Its a worldwide network working
globally.
 HORRIFIC INCIDENTS

• There are many traumatizing experience

that he came upon.Once there was a batch
of 50 children were brought by two middle
man for slavery.

• In Bihar and up there were similar condition

and many incidents like this were there.

• Many incidents of decieving a girl into

bonded labour and also prostitution and
sex slavery and marrying a girl to much
older person.

• Brutal incidents of Babloo,Gulabo,Ashraf

and many more is enough to shake
anybody’s heart and soul
 GLOBAL ICON

• Satyarthi launched a worldwide campaign to stop this child labour and was
supperted by europe and USA also and Asian countries too specially his
Rugmark campaign.

• Till 1999 there was no internation law for slavery and in this year
Internatrional labour organization launched new convention C182 TO
STOP ANY FORMS OF CHILD SLAVERY.

• He launched various campaigns and marches regarding it.He is the founder

of Bachpan bachao andolan which is working in many countries and helped
in reforming the cildren stolen childhood.

• He has liberated over 80,000 child labourers since 1980.

 NOBEL PRIZE AND FURTHER INITIATIVES

• Satyarthi, along with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. It was a very uncontroversial decision till now.

• He has built a strong base on the consumer awareness campaign against use
of products made by children.Satyarthi expresses his personal commitment
bringing freedom and joy to ther children of the world.

• He also lauched shiksha Yatra to make education as the fundamental

right and in 2002 it was amended under 86th amendment act making
education a fundamental right to 6-14 years.

• He also raised a concern over north eastern region in which approx 4000
children go missing every year and physically exploited.He also poses a
solution to this problem by enacting some strict laws.He travelled to 117
countries raising this issue as child labour is prevelant in many countries.
 CONCERNS

• He was called the protector of democarcy by

American parliament and received four awards and
from many countries.

• Mirzapur became his karmabhoomi as this was the

carpet belt till bhadohi district and he saved many
children from there. More than 1.2 million children
are trafficked every year.

• Within India prostitution accounts for a business

$3400 crores and it is also very shocking that 21
lakh crores are generated by enslaving young girls
and boys which is one fifth of the GDP of the
country.

• India, pakistan and many countries spend less

than 2% on education where they spent more than
20% on military.Its a shame.
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