Lok Sabha Question No. 1353 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-02-10
Subject: Bonded Labour Cases
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Feroze Varun Gandhi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1353 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.02.2020

## BONDED LABOUR CASES

1353. SHRI FEROZE VARUN GANDHI:

Will  the  Minister  of  LABOUR  AND  EMPLOYMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a)whether the Government has national data on the number of bonded labour cases which were also cases of human trafficking, if so, the details thereof;
- (b)whether the Government has found any correlation between cases of human trafficking and bonded labour, if so, the details thereof;
- (c)the measures taken by the Government to address Trafficking in Bonded Labour Cases; and
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- (d)the efforts being made by the Government to have centralised data collected from source/destination to prevent human trafficking and bonded labour?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) & (b): A total number of 86, 23 and 6  number of bonded labour cases  involving  human  trafficking  have  been  reported  by  National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) during 2016, 2017 & 2018 respectively. As per information compiled by National Crime Record Bureau, there are  various  reasons/purposes  for  which  the  victims  are  trafficked, which  inter-alia,  includes  forced  labour,  domestic  servitude,  begging etc.

Contd..2/-

(c): 'Police'  is  a  State  subject  under  the  Seventh  Schedule  of the Constitution of India and as such prevention of the crime of human trafficking  in  bonded  labour  cases  is  the  responsibility  of  the  State Governments.  However,  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  (MHA)  has  been supplementing the efforts of the State Governments by taking various initiatives  and  measures  and  providing  financial  assistance  to  all states for setting up Anti Human Trafficking Units. MHA also provides financial assistance to the states and Judicial Academies in States to hold  State  level  Conference  to  sensitize  Police  Officials,  Judicial Officers  and  Prosecutors  about  various  provision  of  law  relating  to trafficking  and  their  role  in  curbing  trafficking.  MHA  has  also  issued several  advisories  to  the  States  and  UTs  from  time  to  time  and meetings  of  the  Nodal  Officers  of  Anti  Human  Trafficking  Units  are also held on periodic basis for curbing trafficking.

(d): National Crime Record Bureau maintains such data. Information is attached at Annexure.

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Annexure referred  to  in  reply  to  part  (d)  of    Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question  No.  1353  for answer on 10.02.2020 regarding Bonded Labour Cases by Shri Feroze Varun Gandhi.

| Sl. No.   | State/UTs Name    |   2016 |   2017 |   2018 |
|-----------|-------------------|--------|--------|--------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh    |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 2         | Arunachal Pradesh |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 3         | Assam             |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 4         | Bihar             |      1 |      0 |      0 |
| 5         | Chhattisgarh      |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 6         | Goa               |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 7         | Gujarat           |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 8         | Haryana           |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh  |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 10        | Jammu &Kashmir    |      0 |      1 |      0 |
| 11        | Jharkhand         |     29 |      0 |      0 |
| 12        | Karnataka         |     11 |     12 |      1 |
| 13        | Kerala            |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 14        | Madhya Pradesh    |      0 |      1 |      2 |
| 15        | Maharashtra       |      0 |      1 |      0 |
| 16        | Manipur           |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 17        | Meghalaya         |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 18        | Mizoram           |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 19        | Nagaland          |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 20        | Odisha            |      5 |      0 |      0 |
| 21        | Punjab            |      6 |      0 |      1 |
| 22        | Rajasthan         |      6 |      2 |      0 |
| 23        | Sikkim            |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 24        | Tamil Nadu        |     11 |      0 |      0 |
| 25        | Telangana         |      0 |      0 |      2 |
| 26        | Tripura           |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 27        | Uttar Pradesh     |      2 |      6 |      0 |
| 28        | Uttarakhand       |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 29        | West Bengal       |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|           | Total(States)     |     71 |     23 |      6 |
| 30        | A &NIslands       |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 31        | Chandigarh        |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 32        | D&N Haveli        |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 33        | Daman &Diu        |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 34        | Delhi UT          |     15 |      0 |      0 |
| 35        | Lakshadweep       |      0 |      0 |      0 |
| 36        | Puducherry        |      0 |      0 |      0 |
|           | Total(UTs)        |     15 |      0 |      0 |
| Total(All | India)            |     86 |     23 |      6 |

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