{"id":84693,"date":"2019-03-02T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T11:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2019-03-02T17:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T11:33:57","slug":"mukti-an-alliance-to-combat-bonded-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mukti-an-alliance-to-combat-bonded-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukti, an alliance to combat bonded labour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Over\n60 Non-governmental organisations (NGO) from across Karnataka, has formed an\nalliance called \u2018Mukti\u2019. The alliance seeks to work towards ending bonded\nlabour and human trafficking.<\/li><li>Bonded\nlabour is generally described as a type of forced labour occurs when a person\nis forced to use their physical labour to pay off a debt. According\nto the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act (BLSAA), 1976, there are three\nelements that go into making a labour situation bonded: a) Being\nunder an obligation such as repayment of loan, b) Meeting the obligation (that is, repaying\nthe loan) through unpaid or underpaid labour or service and c) Having\nno freedom to escape the obligation.<\/li><li>Article\n23(1) of the Constitution prohibits &#8220;beggar&#8221; and other similar forms\nof forced labour and further provides that any contravention of the said\nprohibition shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law. <\/li><li>The\nbonded labour system was abolished in India through the enactment of the Bonded\nLabour System (Abolition) Act (BLSAA), 1976. The Act seeks to free all bonded\nlabourers, cancel their debts, establish rehabilitative measures and punish the\noffender through imprisonment and fine.<\/li><li>Further,\nThe Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill,\n2018 identifies trafficking for forced labour as an \u201caggravated\u201d form of\ntrafficking. <\/li><li>The government of India has Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour Scheme, 2016\nto facilitate rehabilitation of bonded labourers. Under the scheme, financial\nassistance of Rs. 1 lakh is provided for rehabilitation of a rescued adult male\nbonded labourer and 2 lakh for rescued for special category beneficiaries such\nas children including orphans or those rescued from organized &amp; forced\nbegging rings or other forms of forced child labour, and women.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 60 Non-governmental organisations (NGO) from across Karnataka, has formed an alliance called \u2018Mukti\u2019. The alliance seeks to work towards ending bonded labour and human trafficking. Bonded labour is generally described as a type of forced labour occurs when a person is forced to use their physical labour to pay off a debt. According to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mukti-an-alliance-to-combat-bonded-labour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mukti, an alliance to combat bonded labour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1750,1751],"class_list":["post-84693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-bonded-labour","tag-mukti","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}