Lok Sabha Question No. 2230 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-02
Subject: Data on Bonded Labour
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Aparajita Sarangi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2230 TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.12.2019

## DATA ON BONDED LABOUR

## 2230. SHRIMATI APARAJITA SARANGI:

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 and if so, the details thereof;
- (b)whether  the  Government  found  any  correlation  between  cases  of human trafficking and bonded labour and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)the details of measures taken by the Government to address human trafficking in bonded labour cases; and
- (d)whether  any  effort  is  being  made  by  the  Government  to  have centralised data collected from source/destination to prevent human trafficking and bonded labour and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) & (b): A  total  number  of  86  and  23  number  of  bonded  labour cases  involving  human  trafficking  have  been  reported  by  National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) during 2016 and 2017 respectively.
- (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

Annexure  referred  to  in  reply  to  Part  (d)  of  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question  No.  2230    for  answer  on  02.12.2019 regarding data on bonded labour by Shrimati Aparajita Sarangi.

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

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