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Nearly 29 Chenchu/Yanadi tribals belonging to six families of V.Y Colony successful Kurichedu mandal successful Prakasam territory were reportedly rescued and freed from bonded labour. They were allegedly moving arsenic bonded labourers successful a ember kiln adjacent Kalwakurthy roadworthy successful Telkapally mandal, Nagarkurnool district, Telangana, for the past 10 years.
Knowing astir their hard situation, representatives of Dalit Bahujana Resource Centre (DBRC), a voluntary organisation, visited the spot and brought the contented to the announcement of Nagarkurnool District Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO), on with India Labourline, a non-profit organisation, to support unorganised assemblage workers.
After receiving the complaint, a peculiar squad was formed nether the enactment of Telkapally Tahsildar Vijay Kumar connected the orders of the RDO. A constabulary squad led by Sub-Inspector (SI) Naresh, District Labour Officer Rajkumar, and District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) Officer Srisailam, went to the tract and questioned the workers.
During the interrogation, the tribal families reportedly told the authorities that they were forced to enactment successful ember kilns for the past decade. They requested the authorities to rescue them and nonstop them to their autochthonal villages. Later, the authorities reportedly rescued 29 people, including men, women and children of the six families.
They were handed implicit to the territory Labour Department and Child Welfare Committee for further rehabilitation measures. They volition beryllium shifted to their autochthonal colony successful Prakasam district. A lawsuit was registered against the ember kiln proprietor Lalu and strict enactment volition beryllium taken against him.
Later, the rescued labourers were taken to Ongole District Collector bureau connected Monday. They explained their problems to Collector P. Raja Babu, who directed Joint Collector and the ICDS officials to supply contiguous assistance and rehabilitation measures for them. They volition beryllium sent to their autochthonal colony soon.
