MP Sudha Murty speaks within the Rajya Sabha throughout the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi | Photograph Credit score: Sansad TV
Rajya Sabha Nominated MP Sudha Murty on Friday (December 5, 2025) urged the Authorities to set norms on the portrayal of youngsters on social media platforms, as it’s important to inculcate a superb worth system among the many youthful era.
Elevating the problem throughout the Zero Hour, she expressed severe concern about how youngsters are being depicted on social media, and cited laws on the portrayal of youngsters from a number of superior international locations like France.
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“Youngsters are our future, and we must always develop our youngsters in a superb worth system, good schooling, sports activities and lots of different actions,” Ms. Murty stated.
She acknowledged that social media has now develop into extremely popular and there are various benefits, however there are additionally flip sides to it.
Many mother and father expose their harmless youngsters on social media platforms, she stated.
“…they’re uncovered to several types of costumes, costume, commercialization, and put them on social media in order that they will have 10,000, 1 million and half 1,000,000 followers. This can assist them (mother and father) financially so much, I’m conscious of it, however what occurs to the kid?” she requested.
Lengthy-term results
Ms. Murty stated the youngsters develop into a supply of earnings to oldsters, nevertheless it impacts the kid’s psychology in the long run.
“The kid will lose innocence. The kid doesn’t give permission as a result of the kid is just not conscious of it. It’ll have an effect on the youngsters’s psychology. They won’t learn to do any social exercise, or sports activities, and even obtain a superb schooling,” she noticed.
Ms. Murty requested the Central authorities to control this.
She famous that the federal government has performed unbelievable work in regulating the portrayal of youngsters in commercials and the movie business.
“You might be regulating within the commercial, youngsters’s commercial, youngsters working or appearing in a movie. All these issues have been taken care of, and there are strict legal guidelines applied. Whereas in relation to social media, it isn’t performed,” Murty stated.
Within the absence of laws and restrictions, she warned that this may trigger an incredible downside in future for our youngsters.
“There needs to be a restriction. Youngsters can not use a sure sort of costume and dance…as a result of this isn’t the best way how we are able to convey up the following era of our youngsters,” Ms. Murty added.
Printed – December 05, 2025 02:59 pm IST