1443 labourers freed
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07/04/1999
Altogether 1,443 bonded labourers, mostly belonging to the Sullung tribe, had been freed in east Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh in the past two years, official reports said at Itanagar today. The labourers were freed at the behest of project director of Sullung welfare S S Yadav with the help of other officials of the local administration. An amount of Rs 14.43 lakh had been distributed among the freed labourers as subsitence allowance, the reports said.