Admn frees workers kept ‘forcibly’ at brick-kiln

Hisar, June 25

A group of brick-kiln workers have alleged they were kept forcibly at a brick-kiln in Hisar’s Mangali village and were not paid their dues by the brick-kiln owner.

They got freed after a Rajasthan-based NGO intervened and the district administration resolved the dispute between the brick-kiln owner and the labourers on Wednesday.

Labourer Prabhu Ram had complained to the district administration that a group of 50 labourers of 11 families were being treated as bonded labourers by the brick-kiln owner for past some days.

Acting on the complaint, DC Priyanka Soni deputed the SDM to inquire into the matter. On Wednesday, the administration assigned the tehsildar and other officials who visited the brick-kiln and got all the labourers freed.

Satbir Singh, a labour official, said that the workers had prepared 30 lakh bricks and they were paid Rs 19 lakh by the owner. — TNS

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