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NHRC looks into child-labour deaths in
Odisha brick kiln
Wednesday January 09, 2013 02:41:21 PM,
IANS
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Bhubaneswar:
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to
the Odisha government on the death of two children in a fire at a
brick kiln in the state last year, an activist said Wednesday.
The NHRC issued notice to the state's Chief Secretary B.K. Patnaik
and directed him to submit a report on the incident within four
weeks.
The human rights organisation acted on a complaint of India Media
Centre (IMC), Akhanda, who filed the complaint, told IANS.
Akhanda said two child workers were killed and two others were
injured in a major fire mishap in Durga Brick Industries at K.
Nuagaon of Ganjam district of Odisha Jan 20 last year.
Their parents were also working as bonded labourers in the same
brick kiln.
No action has so far been taken by police and local administration
against the brick kiln owner, who was running the unit illegally,
Akhanda said.
In his petition of Dec 11, 2012, Akhanda alleged that despite the
ban on bonded labour and child labour, thousands of people and
children are employed in brick kilns across the state.
These bonded labourers get to work with their families, including
children. The children are thus deprived of education and basic
health facilities, the petitioner pointed out.
The children are employed in kilns from an early age, and each
family is expected to make 1.5 lakh or more bricks during a
specific period, to repay amounts of money they have borrowed from
the labour contractor, who is often a middleman between the
labourers and the brick kiln owners, the petitioner explained.
"We had requested release of all such people and children working
in brick kilns, adequate compensation to families thus vicitimised,
and legal action against the accused," said Nishikant Mishra,
counsel for the petitioner.
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