Bonded labour violates equality, says official

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“Bonded labour is an inhuman and unjust signifier that violates equality and quality dignity. Everyone successful nine indispensable articulation hands to destruct it. Effective coordination among departments and officials acrophobic is indispensable to basal retired bonded labour and physique a bonded labour-free district,” Deputy Commissioner Snehal R. said successful Dharwad connected Sunday.

She was speaking aft inaugurating a store connected Bonded Labour Prohibition Officers arsenic portion of Bonded Labour System Abolition Day.

“Bonded labour is simply a awesome of slavery. It is unfortunate that contempt laws enacted to guarantee equality and support workers, the strategy inactive exists successful immoderate places,” she said.

She urged officials to enactment with determination and guarantee strict implementation of the law.

“We request to instrumentality steps to forestall kid labour, particularly during holidays. Officials should guarantee that children be schools. If children are recovered moving alternatively of studying, ineligible enactment indispensable beryllium taken and efforts should beryllium made to bring them backmost to school,” she said.

Senior Civil Judge Parashuram Doddamani said that nether bonded labour, galore workers person been deprived of minimum wages, food, shelter, aesculapian attraction and different basal facilities.

“Various departments and ineligible services authorities are conducting consciousness programmes and taking ineligible enactment to forestall specified practices,” helium said.

He stressed the request for grooming officials and conducting regular inspections successful concern areas to guarantee workers person their rightful benefits and that nary faces injustice.

State High-Level Committee subordinate William Christopher and Dharwad Bar Association president Ashok Enagi besides spoke.

Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Bhuvanesh Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police Ravish C.R., Deputy Labour Commissioner D.G. Nagesh, Assistant Labour Commissioner Sachin Halemani and others were present.

Published - March 09, 2026 06:59 p.m. IST

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