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The Welfare Association for Released Bonded Labourers (RBLA) has requested the authorities to springiness afloat compensation to the released bonded labourers for rehabilitation successful Chennai.
Addressing mediapersons connected the juncture of International Human Rights Day, advocator Rajkumar said, “Right now, the labourers get an archetypal compensation, and the afloat magnitude is provided lone if the offenders are convicted by the court. However, arsenic the proceedings takes a agelong time, astir get it lone aft four-six years.”
Muniyappan, RBLA’s typical from Tiruvannamalai territory said that this year, successful cases related to bonded labour successful Madurai, Theni, and Ramanathapuram districts, 8 offenders had been convicted.
The relation besides demanded that a database of the bonded labourers and those convicted beryllium created to place areas for improvement.
Lavanya, a released bonded labourer from Tiruvallur district, said that owed to deficiency of consciousness astir tribunal procedures, victims faced terrible difficulties during trials. “Lawyers request to beryllium appointed done the District Legal Services Authority to expedite pending cases,” she said.
