Tamil Nadu government has passed an order approving the labour department’s proposal for a standard operating procedure to end bonded labour in the state.
TN, incidentally, has recorded the fifth highest number of human trafficking cases in the country.
The government has come up with a uniform procedure in identification, rescue and rehabilitation of bonded labourers to guide the implementing agencies of the Bonded Labourer System (Abolition) Act and the Central Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourers 2016