As per the latest reports, the Tamil Nadu labor division has started procedures to issue ‘release letters’ and authorization break remuneration of Rs 20,000 each to the bonded workers who were saved from a Virudhunagar mill factory by activists in 2020.
This is following the Madras High Court giving notification to the work division on a Public Interest Litigation documented by M. Arokiasamy Britto, a social specialist who was instrumental in saving the bonded workers.
As per the Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act 1976 and the Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Laborers, 2016, the state government should give a ‘release letter’ and an interval remuneration measure of Rs 20,000 to the workers 24 hours inside their delivery. Notwithstanding, Arokiasamy Britto in his request expressed that he, alongside the District Legal help authority authorities and Virudhunagar police authorities, had saved 33 Chhattisgarh locals from a paper factory in Sivakasi, Virudhunagar region in December 2020 and had sent them home.
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The social extremist, who is additionally the convenor of ‘Yell For Freedom,’ a collusion of a few Non-benefit associations neutralizing reinforced work, kid work and illegal exploitation, in Tamil Nadu expressed that to date the work office has neither given a ‘discharge letter’ nor have they paid any pay to these workers.
Talking to the media, Britto said: “I have moved a Public Interest Litigation in the Madras High court against this and the court has served notice to the Tamil Nadu state work division”.
The Madurai seat of the Madras High Court addressed by Justices Paresh Upadhyay and Justice R. Vijayakumar had given notice to the work office on Friday and deferred the case to April 18.
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