THE ROOT CAUSES OF BONDED LABOUR SYSTEM AND COMMUNITY BASED STRATEGIES TO COMBAT IT IN THIRUVALLUR DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU

M. DEVASITHAM; Dr. F. CARTER PREMRAJ

Volume : IV, Issue : XI, November - 2015

THE ROOT CAUSES OF BONDED LABOUR SYSTEM AND COMMUNITY BASED STRATEGIES TO COMBAT IT IN THIRUVALLUR DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU

M. Devasitham, Dr. F. Carter Premraj

Abstract :

Bonded labour is one of the contemporary forms of slavery which continue to exist in different forms in different parts of India. This modern day slavery taking advantage of the unequal social distribution and poor condition of the society, has taken numerous dimensions and continue to occur and reoccur in India. According to Walk Free Foundation, a human rights based organization, in their global forced labour survey revealed there are 38.8 million people working under forced labour conditions. In India alone 14 million are in bondage. In order to enroot the issue of bonded labour, India has signed in numerous International Covenants, formulated national level laws and legislation but due to improper ground level implementation and failure to enroot the primary causes of bonded labour, bonded labour still continues to live long in the country. The system of bonded labour begins when an economically deprived person borrows money from the wealthy landlords in the name of advance by pledging his labour as a mode of repayment. Gradually the system of bonded labour will victimize the workers by restricting their basic rights of their movements, their employment, their rights to get fair wage and subject to severe abuses. Hence, the present paper aims to discuss about the prevalence, present condition, root causes of bonded labour system in Thiruvallur District and to study the community based challenges, opportunities and suggestion to enroot the issue of bonded labour among vulnerable communities.