There are approximately 18 million people in India living and working without freedom of movement, abused, and on miserably low wage.
The 81 persons recently freed from this modern-day slavery from Telangana’s Rangareddy district, all hail from Odisha, a major source state of migrant, bonded labour. The brick kiln factory they left their homes for was the promise of a job which would pay them enough to pay off their debt — the advance given by the middleman — plus earn enough to live by and save. While it sounded like a great opportunity, this belief didn’t last very long.
