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New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is organizing a day long workshop on ‘Elimination of Bonded Labour’ in collaboration with the Government of Bihar on July 21, 2017, at Hotel Patliputra Ashok, Beerchand Patel Path, Patna. The workshop will be chaired by Justice D Murugesan, Member, NHRC, and start at 9:30 am.
The participants of the workshop will be senior officers of the Government of Bihar, State Human Rights Commission, Bihar, NGOs and representatives of brick kilns, stone crushing and other related industries. Academics, research scholars and final year law students/ Research Scholars from Universities in Bihar have been invited to attend the workshop.
The objective of the workshop is to familiarize and sensitize the District Magistrates, Sub Divisional Magistrates, State Labour Officers and Members of Vigilance Committees, brick kilns, stone crushing and other related industries etc in the process of identification, release and rehabilitation of bonded labourers under the provisions of Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976, and other related legislations, according to an NHRC release.
The National Human Rights Commission was asked by the Supreme Court of India in 1997 to get involved in the monitoring of the implementation of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. Therefore, the NHRC, in its endeavor to raise concerns on the continuance of bonded labour, has been organizing workshops to sensitize official machinery to work for its abolition in different parts of the country. It has so organized 40 workshops on elimination of bonded labour, according to the NHRC release.