Hasbara Buster
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2010
- Messages
- 4,612
- Reaction score
- -7
Culture of bonded labor alive in India
The centuries-old culture of bonded labor and slavery is still alive in India, which is home to more than half of the world’s modern-day slaves.
Poverty is widespread in India. The country has a quarter of the world’s poor; and more than half of the citizenry survives on less than two dollars a day.
Bonded labor has been prevalent in the Indian Subcontinent for centuries, when the country was ruled by various monarchs as well as British rulers until 1947, when it gained independence.
Since then, slavery has only changed forms.
Not just men, but also women and children are forced to work as bonded laborers in mines, farms, factories, quarries and brick kilns, where they receive little or no pay as their work is considered mandatory in return for a loan that they have received typically for survival.
The Indian government, in collaboration with the International Labor Organization (ILO), has been taking various proactive measures to tackle the problem of slavery. Although there have been successes, it is not promising to those who are struggling as slaves in unknown corners of the country each day.
Considering the magnitude the problem, being essentially a socio-economic problem linked to poverty and illiteracy, it requires concerted efforts by different sections of the society to deal with the issue.
PressTV - Culture of bonded labor alive in India
The centuries-old culture of bonded labor and slavery is still alive in India, which is home to more than half of the world’s modern-day slaves.
Poverty is widespread in India. The country has a quarter of the world’s poor; and more than half of the citizenry survives on less than two dollars a day.
Bonded labor has been prevalent in the Indian Subcontinent for centuries, when the country was ruled by various monarchs as well as British rulers until 1947, when it gained independence.
Since then, slavery has only changed forms.
Not just men, but also women and children are forced to work as bonded laborers in mines, farms, factories, quarries and brick kilns, where they receive little or no pay as their work is considered mandatory in return for a loan that they have received typically for survival.
The Indian government, in collaboration with the International Labor Organization (ILO), has been taking various proactive measures to tackle the problem of slavery. Although there have been successes, it is not promising to those who are struggling as slaves in unknown corners of the country each day.
Considering the magnitude the problem, being essentially a socio-economic problem linked to poverty and illiteracy, it requires concerted efforts by different sections of the society to deal with the issue.
PressTV - Culture of bonded labor alive in India
