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SC directs states to file status report on bonded labour
New Delhi, July 15: Taking note of National Human Rights Commission`s dismay over non-filing of status reports on bonded labourers to help their rehabilitation, the Supreme Court today directed 11 states to file such reports within four weeks before the commission.
New Delhi, July 15: Taking note of National Human
Rights Commission's dismay over non-filing of status reports
on bonded labourers to help their rehabilitation, the Supreme
Court today directed 11 states to file such reports within
four weeks before the commission.
A bench comprising Justice Ruma Pal and Justice P V Reddi
issued the notices to Haryana, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Kerala,
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Chattishgarh,
Madhya Pradesh and Uttaranchal after going through the report
of the NHRC, which is entrusted with the task of overseeing
the rehabilitation of released bonded labourers.
He said the commission had in its report of March 27 this
year stated that the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,
Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh had not
bothered to file any status report while Kerala, Gujarat and
Uttaranchal regularly asserted that problem of bonded labour
did not exist in their states.
Bureau Report