Should parents restrict children's from accessing social media?

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Students across India are glued to their smartphones. As little as 2 year old's are accessing reels on Instagram, which isn't making situation any better. Various newspaper and reporting agencies have learnt recently that am average user(aged below 18 years) spends atleast around 8 hours on Social media everyday.

Behaviour analysts have always suggested to consume content available on these platforms in moderation. However, schools and educational institutions have urged the government officials to completely disallow students from engaging and interacting online on these platforms. 

Various students found that when they took a break from social media, their performance elevated and they experienced higher intellectual abilities and better performance. It's about taking out the necessary time to go out in sunlight, take regular breaks when working with screens, and indulging in light to intense exercises on a regular basis. Cutting out on excess calories has also seemed to prove beneficial for these students.

While parents are concerned about their student's future, the bigger underlying risk is that using screens for prolonged durations increases the risk of being diagnosed with Myopia. Myopia, as predicted by a healthcare expert is ramapantly rising in Indian students and is expected to make 1/2 of the entire children population suffering by myopia by the end of 2050.

Analysts and psychologists have been saying for long that these devices and platforms are designed in a manner to hold attention of users. Whenever a user uses social media on their devices, they expose themselves to advertising and content that is tailored to meet their requirements and expectations..

Despite the analysts suggesting various reforms to bring about a change to end this healthcare concern, GOI remains hesitant to implement norms in this regard. When GOI previously banned PUBG, many users took to other platforms to access this game. When TikTok was banned in India, users took to Instagram.

The relevant solution is to devise a method that restricts am individual's capacity to access sensitive content and also reforms should be in place to cope up with alternate platforms when ban is imposed. When we look at the current situation in Capital city, GOI imposed GRAP-3 restrictions to reduce air pollution. However, when researchers and investigators visited ISBT Kashmiri gate, they noticed that BS-3 and BS-4 diesel buses were allowed entry into Delhi. 

Noticing this, 4 operational WTE plants in Delhi, under the control of MCD, have been issued notices and asked to comply with regulations and norms. These waste-to-energy plants incinerate mixed waste( wet and dry) leading to poisonous hazardous gases being accumulated in the air, thereby causing breathing problems, watery eyes, throat irritation, and other health problems in residents residing nearby these operational WTE plants. Stubble burning and vehicular pollution are two major reasons that contribute to air pollution in capital. 

Yamuna and Ganga rivers are completely choked due to which a white foam( considered to be dangerously poisonous) is formed around the surface of the rivers. Delhi goverment( now being led by Atishi after former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal resigned), issued strict notices to women to avoid entering into rivers during recently Chatth Puja. 

As we can observe, there are a multitude of issues that are causing concern to the citizens of India. It remains to be seen as to how GOI will initiate steps to safeguard citizen's interests.

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