No effective implementing of bonded labour laws: Agnivesh

August 28, 2012 17:55

Activist Swami Agnivesh today alleged that central and state governments were not properly implementing legislations on checking bonded labour and ensuring minimum wages.

He also claimed that states do not properly rehabilitate rescued labourers. "Both the state and the Union governments were unable to oversee the effective implementation of various Acts like the Bonded Labourers Act, 1979, Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Inter State Migrant Workmen Act, 1979, among others," Agnivesh, who leads Bonded Labour Liberation Front, said.

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