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Odisha Human Rights Commission (SHRC) asked the State government to identify the areas vulnerable to practice of forced migration in the State. Taking exception to labour migration from Odisha often turning into bonded labour, the OHRC directed the Labour and Employees State Insurance (L&ESI) department secretary to make a detailed presentation before the commission on the issue on September 10. The Secretary should highlight measures taken to prevent such migration and rehabilitate freed bonded labourers and their children. The presentation must include the issue of institutional arrangement both at district level and State level to mitigate and prevent the practice through coordinated action among different departments charged with the task of mitigating multidimensional aspects of poverty, it said. OHRC Chairperson Justice B. K. Mishra and member B. K. Patnaik issued the direction while awarding cash compensation of Rs. 50,000 to Sushant Kumbar, a 12-year-old child labourer from Bolangir district, who had sustained serious injury after being mercilessly beaten up by his employer in a brick kiln in Karnataka. The boy’s left arm was fractured and doctor had advised amputation. “OHRC made the key observation with regards to the issues of migration and bonded labour a number of incidents suggested that migrant labourers from Odisha were being forcibly held in other States and made to toil as bonded workers. We hope it would trigger a big administrative exercise to address the issue,” said Biswapriya Kanungo, who moved the SHRC highlighting plight of the child labourer. Bijay Kumar Panda, an RTI activist, was co-petitioner in the case. Bolangir district collector was asked to provide all legal assistance to child’s family in fighting legal battle in Odisha and Karnataka to get back their dues.
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Odisha, vulnerable, forced migration, activist, Karnataka, child labourer, legal battle, employer, brick kiln, poverty, human rights,
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