Regional workshop on Elimination of Bonded Labour

The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC organized a day long Regional Workshop on 'Elimination of Bonded Labour System' in collaboration with the Government of Punjab at Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Chandigarh on the 5th April, 2018. Mr. Justice D. Murugesan, Member, NHRC chaired the workshop.
The participants of the Workshop were senior officers of the Government of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, UT of Chandigarh and Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab State Human Rights Commission, NGOs and representatives of brick kilns, stone crushing and other related industries, Academicians and Students/Research Scholars from Punjab University, Indian School of Business and Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Chandigarh.
The objective of the Workshop was to familiarize and sensitize the District Magistrates, Sub Divisional Magistrates, State Labour Officers and Members of Vigilance Committees, brick kilns, stone crushing and other related industries etc. in the process of identification, release and rehabilitation of bonded labourers and with the provisions of Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 and other related legislations.
The Commission, in its endeavour to raise concerns on the continuance of bonded labour, has been organising workshops to sensitize official machinery to work for its abolition in different parts of the country. It has organised 45 workshops on elimination of bonded labour so far.