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State targets bonded labour

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Take steps to rescue, rehabilitate such labourers, YSR tells Collectors

COLLECTIVE EFFORT: Chief Minister Y.S Rajasekhara Reddy inaugurating a workshop for Collectors in Hyderabad on Tuesday. PHOTO: SATISH H.

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy has called upon the Collectors to make concerted efforts to eliminate bonded labour system in the State and send across the message that Government was serious about tacking the problem.

"The Government is very serious about implementing the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 and any representation received by the officials has to be granted top priority," Dr. Reddy said.

He was addressing a two-day sensitisation workshop for Collectors on elimination of bonded labour in the State on Tuesday.

The workshop is being organised by the State Government and the National Human Right Commission (NHRC).

"The administration has to take pro-active measures to help rescued bonded labourers too," he said.

Scene in Kurnool

Dr. Reddy expressed concern over children being employed in cotton fields in some districts particularly Kurnool. He said the Kurnool Collector had to explain how the administration was tackling the problem.

He also referred to a village in Krishna district, where a large number of children were sent to other cities as housemaids.

School Education Minister N. Rajyalakshmi said bonded and child labour problem could be solved only when Government and NGOs joined hands. Social Welfare Minister D. S. Redya Naik noted that 40,000 bonded labourers were rescued and rehabilitated.

NHRC member Y. Bhaskara Rao pointed out that 1,041 bonded labourers were rescued in the State.

But, cases were booked only against 165 persons

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