Wednesday, 29 August 2012
23:51
SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR
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A
total of 43 migrant labourers who were living in misery and facing torture
in a brick kiln in Andhra Pradesh for years were finally rescued on Tuesday.
They
were rescued from a brick kiln of Indugududdm village under BDLVanoor police
station in Medhak district, thanks to steps taken by Balangir SP R
Prakash, Medhak SP Abinash Mahanty, besides effort of Aide et Action and
local revenue and other officials there.
These
migrant labourers include 20 children, 13 female and 10 male members of eight
families of Tureikela, Muribahal, Saintala, Deogaon block of Balangir district.
Bhajaram
Sahu of Janamukti Anusthan, a local NGO of Muribahal and a partner of Aide et
Action, raised the issue of the plight of the migrants and it was published in
the Pioneer (Bhubneshwar edition) on July 11, 2012 under the caption ‘Migrants
family held in the brick kilns of Andhra Pradesh for 3 years’.
After
publication of the news, officials of the Migration Information Resource Centre
(MIRC) of Aide et Action, Bhubneshwar started their search.
A
team of MIRC official of Aide et Action, Bhubneshwar comprising Dayasagar
Pradhan and Saroj Barik under the guidance Umi Daniel of MIRC, went to
Hyderabad and apprised Medhak SP Abinash Mohanty about thesituation.
Meanwhile,
Balangir SP R Prakash, after getting complaints from Jalindra Kaliet, brother
of Narenda Kaliet, a migrant labourer, wrote a letter to the Medhak SP
Abinash Mohanty to locate and rescue these migrant labourers.
Mahanty
directed his subordinates to locate these migrants and rescue them.
With
support from local Mandal revenue officials, these migrants were finally
located at a brick kiln in Induguddm village under BDLVanoor police station in
Medhak district on August 28 and found a total number of 43 migrant
labourers including 20children, 13 female and 10 male person who were
staying in the brick kiln for decades, informed Saroj Barik.
Among
the rescued migrants, 25 migrant labourers were released under the Bonded
Labour System Abolition Act of 1976 and they were given Rs 1000 each as per
provisions of the Act at the destination.
The
local labour official had written a letter to the Labour Commissioner of Odisha
to rescue these people.
These
rescued migrant labourers, accompanied by Dayasagar Pradhan of Aide ete Action,
arrived at Balangir on Wednesday evening.
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