“We do not stop even if we are ill” Said by Bonded Labour in Tamil nadu.

Bonded labour Also known as debt bondage, bonded labor is a specific form of forced labour in which compulsion into servitude is derived from debt. Categorized and examined in the scholarly literature as a type of forced labor, bonded labour entails constraints on the conditions and duration of work by an individual.

Revenue officials in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district have rescued 50 labourers from three brick kilns after it was found that they had been engaged in forced or bonded labour for the past 12 years.Seven children and 24 women are among those rescued.

Three kiln owners — identified as K Raju, Shekar and M Mani — who had allegedly exploited the labourers are absconding and a police complaint has been filed, officials said.The labourers were being forced to work in return of the money they had borrowed or for the payment given in advance. Still there are many bonded labour in Tamil nadu,they did not know hoe to come back to their home.

For Tamil Nadu to become completely bonded-labour free, stakeholders need to work in tandem with each other and the one stop crisis teams established under the TN State legal services authority has been playing an important part in the same.