TN bonded labourers still waiting

  • 29/04/1998

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

One year after a State sponsored survey provided these startling statistics on the plight of bonded labourers in the Tamil Nadu, things are not exactly cut out for the State's proposed rescue plan. A Rs 5 crore sanction may not help much unless the apathetic Revenue Divisional Officers (RDO) - in charge of freeing and rehabilitating the labourers - brush up on their knowledge of the Bonded Labour Abolition Act.