The Chemical Factory

Rajesh has his summer vacations going on, his friends have been to their native and few even out of the country to visit their family.

Rajesh is 13 years old and his father is a chemical factory owner which is 25km away from their house, his mother is a housewife and his brother is 10 years old.

Rajesh is bored of playing in the house and cannot find any of his friends in the park as they are not in town, he tells his father to take him to the amusement park but his father says we would be busy this month and next month they all would go.

Rajesh was happy and was reading a book, he always used to hear his father talk about the chemical factory which caused him and he wanted to visit it, his father agreed to take Rajesh along with him, his father always used to come home for his lunch but today thought of taking his lunch along with him, and hence asked to pack the lunch form him and Rajesh.

Rakesh was excited to see the factory as he knew there was a huge open space where he could play alone all day.

His father and he got ready and drove to the factory, Rajesh was surprised to see such a huge factory as he had never seen one huge like this before. He got down the car and saw people saluting his father as he was his father was the owner. He also a lady with her kids, and many other kids as well. Rajesh was happy as he could play with them.

His father introduced him to all the people and Rajesh couldn't wait anymore to play outside, Rajesh went out. He saw many kids sitting but nobody playing and also saw their faces were dull and they didn't have energy. He wondered about this...he went near the lake and saw it was very dirty, he didn't know the reason for this and followed the flow of water and saw the chemicals from the factory were being dumped into this and also the huge chimney kind of things were giving out smoke which was black like coal and would even make the blue sky, black in no time...He smelled the air foul and also found it difficult to breathe but he didn't bother and kept playing on his own.

It was lunchtime and his father ate with one of his clients and Rajesh sat on the open playground and ate the packed lunch...he then again continued playing, he saw a door where many kids were seated and heard loud noise he didn't understand, what was it? It was evening his father came back to pick him, but he saw Rajesh was dull and unhappy. He didn't understand why. They stopped at a signal but suddenly, Rajesh started finding difficult to breathe and fell unconscious His father was tensed and rushed to a hospital, where the doctor said he breathed polluted air and also his stomach has an infection because of some chemical reaction

His father didn't understand and when Rajesh came back to conscious hugged him and said I don't know what had happened to you?, Rajesh said "I know papa" his father was surprised and asked why?, he said "The air near your chemical factory has become dangerous to breathe because you are leaving the dangerous chemical out in the air which is polluting it. Not just that you are polluting the water and also there are dangerous waves which you use in manufacturing. I had eaten my lunch there which got affected due to all this and hence I wasn't feeling well. Papa, I want you to reduce all these things, the kids there were so lethargic and dull, were as they must be active. Not just that many people are getting affected due to your factory"

His father was shocked and was feeling sad and then he realized his mistake and shifted his factory to a place where people were less and also didn't pollute the lakes and he offered his workers masks and all other benefits.