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55 bonded labourers rescued from brick
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PTI | 07:09 PM,Sep 05,2012
New Delhi, Sep 5 (PTI) Forty bonded
labourers were rescued from brick kilns in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district, an NGO
claimed today. Bonded Labour Liberation Front led by activist Swami Agnivesh
said the labourers were rescued from the brick kilns in Budgam district last
week. Bonded labourer Ratnabai Sahoo, who managed to escape, said, "I have
been working with my family for the last 11 years. Not for once have we been
allowed to go back to Chhattisgarh. We are paid Rs 700 as for the entire week
wages. "When we asked the brick kiln owner to allow us to go home, he said
you have to pay Rs 3 lakh which you had taken as loan, then only you will be
allowed. Me and my son were thrashed very badly but we managed to escape
somehow from their custody. "After we left, my husband was beaten and
tortured mercilessly," she said. Commenting on their social conditions,
Agnivesh said, "These labourers have been working in the brick kilns here
for the last eleven years. We rescued some of them in February- March this year
and sent them back to Chhattisgarh." "But in Chhattisgarh, these
labourers were not adequately rehabilitated," Agnivesh alleged. PTI SBC
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