Set up task force to combat bonded labour: NHRC seminar

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Revision of the Minimum Wages Act into a Living Wages Act and setting up of a national task force to examine the obstacles and challenges in combating the scourge of bonded labour, were among the various suggestions made by an NHRC-hosted national seminar here today. The two-day event which was inaugurated by Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya yesterday at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library concluded with a host of suggestions made by members from various state commissions, legal experts and bonded labour activists and other eminent personalities.