An Act to regulate the employment of inter-State migrant workmen and to provide for their conditions of service and for matters connected therewith.
Researchers of bonded labor in India seek to understand its long-standing practices through an examination of contemporary forms of labor coercion, their origins and relationships to poverty and inequality, and implications for policy making. Child labor, agricultural debt bondage, and bonded migrant labor are persistent forms of modern slavery that fall under the Indian constitutional definition of forced labor.
The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection ofChildren) Amendment Bill, 2010 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on November 16, 2010 by the Minister of State Shrimati Krishna Tirath for the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The Bill seeks to amend the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000.
There is an increasing trend of migration and trafficking of children for labour in different parts of the country. Compelled by the socio-economic conditions, a large number of children are migrating from economically backward areas to big cities for work.
An Act to provide for the abolition of bonded labour system with a view to preventing the economic and physical exploitation of the weaker sections of the people and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
A letter written by the Secretary of a social organization alleging prevalence of bonded labour in stone quarries in Andhra Pradesh.
The case has brought to the notice of this Court tell-tale miseries of bonded labourers in our country and their exploitation and the necessity of identifying and checking the practice of bonded labour in this country and to rehabilitate those who are victims of this practice.
Case BANDHUA MUKTI MORCHA Vs.RESPONDENT: UNION OF INDIA and OTHERS.
