Odisha Bonded Labourer

Chief Ministers of three states - Bengal, Bihar and Odisha - which send the maximum number of labourers across the country, have taken the initiative to ensure the safety of the people as the 21-day lockdown to counter the coronavirus started .Their initiative comes amid concerns over the lakhs of families that depend on daily wages, who are bond t...

The credit-course intends to help the students in better understanding of the crime in India.

Nijam Khan was on a recruiting spree. All through the autumn, he drove to villages around the town of Kantabanji in Odisha looking for labour. He zeroed in on poor families, jobless men and desperate couples. He gave them cash to buy food and clothes ahead of the local harvest festival. In return, they gave him their freedom. “There are no jobs h...

For 13-year-old Sushant Kumbhar, a former bonded labourer from Odisha's Bolangir district, even the basic joys of childhood, like playing with other children, is denied. His hand is full of pus and he is in extreme pain. In January, his left hand had been crushed by the owner of the brick kiln in Karnataka where the family had been forced to work.

In a major operation, as many as 273 persons from Odisha employed as bonded labourers in a brick kiln in Tiruvallur district near Tamil Nadu were rescued on Tuesday.

Chief Ministers of three states - Bengal, Bihar and Odisha - which send the maximum number of labourers across the country, have taken the initiative to ensure the safety of the people as the 21-day lockdown to counter the coronavirus started .Their initiative comes amid concerns over the lakhs of families that depend on daily wages, who are bond t...

The credit-course intends to help the students in better understanding of the crime in India.

Nijam Khan was on a recruiting spree. All through the autumn, he drove to villages around the town of Kantabanji in Odisha looking for labour. He zeroed in on poor families, jobless men and desperate couples. He gave them cash to buy food and clothes ahead of the local harvest festival. In return, they gave him their freedom. “There are no jobs h...

For 13-year-old Sushant Kumbhar, a former bonded labourer from Odisha's Bolangir district, even the basic joys of childhood, like playing with other children, is denied. His hand is full of pus and he is in extreme pain. In January, his left hand had been crushed by the owner of the brick kiln in Karnataka where the family had been forced to work.

In a major operation, as many as 273 persons from Odisha employed as bonded labourers in a brick kiln in Tiruvallur district near Tamil Nadu were rescued on Tuesday.