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REHABILITATION OF BONDED LABOURERS
Government revamps scheme for rehabilitation of bonded labourers“The revised scheme shall be a central sector scheme and shall come into effect from January 27, 2022. The state government shall not be re...- HC seeks Centre, AAP government responses on PIL for back wages to child, bonded labourersIn his plea filed through advocates Kriti Awasthi and Nimisha Menon, the petitioner has sought an expeditious recovery of the back wages du...
- Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi lauds govt for strong policy on bonded labourThere is need of further changes in the old rules and speed up summary trial in such cases of children freed from bonded labour and traffic...
- Child trafficking trials should be wrapped up in 30 days: Kailash SatyarthiThe Nobel laureate added, "The victim must also be rehabilitated and monetary compensation should reach him or her within 30 days."
- Bonded labours to get up to Rs 3 lakhs for rehabilitation: Bandaru DattatreyaLabour Ministry announced a slew of measures including hike in financial assistance package for freed bonded labours and introduced stringe...
- Labour ministry proposes a 15-fold increase in rehabilitation cost of bonded labourersThe rehabilitation cost per labour under the scheme is equally borne between the Centre and state. It was last revised in 1999.
- Child labourers: NHRC issues notice to six statesNHRC has issued notices to Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
- Centre not considering unemployment allowance: Bandaru DattatreyaThe Centre is not considering any proposal to provide unemployment allowance to jobless persons as the country is not in a position to incu...
- Labour ministry proposes fifteen-fold jump in rehabilitation cost of bonded labourersThe labour ministry has proposed a massive increase in rehabilitation cost of bonded labourers from Rs 20,000 to up to Rs 3 lakh, a fifteen...
- Strike: Banks lose business worth Rs 10,000 crore in RajasthanBanks in Rajasthan suffered a business loss of Rs 10,000 crore as a result of nationwide strike of ten central trade unions.
- Government may propose 15-fold increase in rehabilitation cost of bonded labourersThe labour ministry may soon propose a 15-fold increase in the rehabilitation cost of bonded labourers to up to Rs 3,00,000.
- Cabinet approves ILO protocol to deal with forced labourThe government today approved an International Labour Organisation (ILO) protocol to make a national policy for remedial measures to deal w...
- Over 3 lakh bonded labourers released till March 31: GovernmentThe maximum number of bonded labourers were identified and released in Tamil Nadu (65,573) followed by Karnataka (64,600), Maharashtra (50,...
- SIM manufacturer Gemalto's data base hacking by spy agencies, a security threat: K C TyagiRaising the issue during Zero Hour, K C Tyagi said US and UK spy agencies have hacked into the data base of Dutch company Gemalto, popular ...
- NHRC notice to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar govts over bonded labourNHRC has issued notices to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar governments over rescue of 50 alleged bonded labourers from a brick kiln at Sinhar villa...
- National Human Rights Commission issues notice to Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu on the issue of bonded labourNotices have also been issued to the Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary, Labour and Employment, Odisha government to submit reports.
- Labour Ministry draws flak from its minister on eradication of bonded labourThe Labour Ministry today drew flak from its minister "for not doing anything concrete" or "seriously" to eradicate the problem of bonded l...
- Bonded labour is rampant, state government to conduct survey: Supreme CourtSC directed all the states & Union territories to conduct a survey on existence of bonded labour in their regions and take steps to rehabil...
- NHRC orders Puri Collector to review cases of bonded labourNHRC has directed secretary, labour, panchyat Raj and Puri District Collector to attend its court on February 16th next for hearing on a co...
- Chhattisgarh sanctions 1.5 cr package for bonded labourersChhattisgarh government has sanctioned a package of Rs one-and-half-crore to rehabilitate over 700 bonded labourers freed from different pa...
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