so she looks older you wont go and complain about your friends but its sad that were not able to stop them homemaker neelu sharma adds ive seen many cases where people employ small kids at home be it their maids kids or someone they brought from their villages to give them a bright future neelu says in fact recently when my maid had to undergo an operation she offered me to employ her adolescent daughter for 15 days i refused but many others in my colony agreed its also common among maids to send their kids to work i did all the chores myself and paid her for the 15 days because i didnt want her to leave its easier to find a groom than a maid in noida 2530 lakh houses employ child labour as servants in ncr ngos rakesh kumar director victim assistant and campaign bachpan bachao andolan says domestic child labourers are quite common in ncr according to an estimate around 2530 lakh households across ncr have employed kids as servants in fact the demand for domestic help in the region is such that the socalled maid agencies have turned into human trafficking agencies we filed a pil in 2012 against such agencies where we had stressed that no maid agency should be allowed to employ any girl or boy below 18 years of age even as the bill was approved last year it is yet to become a law we have collaborated with a number of rwas to rescue domestic child labourers in ncr we have requested them to make their societies domesticchildlabour free and many of them have responded positively i think the rwas can do a lot when it comes to sensitizing people on the issue of child labour mala bhandari founder of an ngo called sadarg says the situation is quite dire in noida whenever we get to know about such a case we contact the police to rescue the child worker but most cases go unreported one can see child labourers at tea stalls and other such places but those working at homes are more vulnerable and harder to be rescued nobody gets to know how they are being treated inside a home those who employ child labour at homes are well educated and aware of the law if they are so inconsiderate who does one turn to while ninad a social worker who is associated with an ngo called vidya and child says i find it really disturbing because child labour is not even considered an issue i have worked in several slums and these children are no less talented than anyone else they understand the importance of education but its heartbreaking when we see them working as servants at such a tender age we have tried to make their employers understand that these children are losing out on their childhood but they argue back saying its better than them dying due to poverty kids can be easily dominated