On a warm morning in March, 100-odd residents of Manavseva Project, a shelter home at Arangaon, 11 km from Ahmednagar town in western Maharashtra, are out in the open, basking in the bright sunshine after breakfast. Police Inspector Sanjay Thenge, who joined the Belvandi police station in 2023, says the prevalence of bonded labour in the district’s Shrigonda taluka came …
The Supreme Court of India on Monday sought the response of the Central and the State governments in a plea seeking to enforce the fundamental rights of persons trafficked into bonded labour. The Central and state governments' failure to ensure the effective functioning of vigilance committees, as required under the Bonded Labour Abolition Act, 1976 as well as serious lapses …
The Union home ministry has asked the Punjab government to look into allegations that farm workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were being trafficked to the state and forced to work as bonded labourers. The home ministry’s letter, dated March 17, says the Border Security Force has highlighted trafficking, narcotics abuse and bonded labour in the state, asking the chief …
Eight-year-old Deshraj lost his life after his parents were physically barred from taking him to the hospital by upper caste men who had trapped the family into bonded labour since the last five years for mere Rs 25,000 in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna. In 2016, then Union labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya had also committed to rescuing 1.84 bonded labourers by 2030. …
An eight-year-old boy named Deshraj lost his life after his parents were physically barred from taking him to the hospital for treatment allegedly by some upper-caste men who had trapped the family into bonded labour since the last five years for merely Rs 25,000 in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district. The family is now waiting for justice, unpaid wages and documentation, …