Odisha’s migration-prone regions are not new to reports of labourers being held hostage as bonded labourers and subjected to sexual harassment, inhuman physical torture and denial of due wages. The practice may not go on for longer.
A group of young bonded labourers from various migrant-prone districts in Odisha have banded together under the banner ‘Shramavahini’ with a mission to ensure swift government response to distressed victims of bonded labour.
They have put smartphones to their best use by alerting government agencies through social media. Their past experience of going through physical torture is also coming handy in their new mission.
