Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Police in Punjab are investigating whether a brick kiln owner held migrant workers and their children in debt bondage, after labourers and activists protested preliminary findings that there were no violations of labour laws. Forty people - from eight families, including adult workers and about a dozen children - were allowed to leave the kiln this week in Bathinda district in Punjab state after activists and other workers said they had been held against their will because the owner said they owed money.
