New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- As the nation celebrates the Children's Day on Thursday, November 14, 2024, in keeping with the birthday of the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, popularly known as 'Chacha Nehru' among children, it is important that we take into account a vital issue in the context of the development of children and their future.

Children, Nehru thought, stood for the future and looked upon them as the buds that would bloom into beautiful flowers to make the nation both aesthetically pleasant and physically sound.

To quote him, "Children are like buds in the garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and citizens of tomorrow."

It is obvious there that children need ...