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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jharkhand's Khunti: Multiple narratives, one story of migration, bonded labour and hunger

Jharkhand's Khunti: Multiple narratives, one story of migration, bonded labour and hunger

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published Published on Aug 13, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 13, 2018
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Many of Jharkhand's immigrant women labourers are lured by touts into becoming domestic workers in cities and are often reduced to bonded labourers.

KHUNTI:
Her eyes sunk deep in their sockets, Suggi Mundain stares blankly at the wall of her bare-bones hut, her vacant gaze speaking of a once happy family torn apart by grinding poverty, and telling a societal tale of migration and exploitation.

The 60-year-old, her face wrinkled beyond her years, sits despairing and devoid of hope in her home in the village of Jabra in Jharkhand's Khunti district, 50 km from state capital Ranchi, and a world away from its promise of development and progress.

With multiple deaths, a daughter who is missing and another who has just returned after 12 years, Suggi's is a story that finds wide echo across the state, home to one of the poorest populations of the country.

According to the state's Labour Department, the number of immigrant women labourers from Jharkhand in 2017 was 10,879.

However, NGOs working in the state say this could be much higher as there are no proper records.

Many of these women are lured by touts into becoming domestic workers in cities, a sector where there is little or no accountability and they are often reduced to bonded labourers.

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The New Indian Express, 12 August, 2018, http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/aug/12/jharkhands-khunti-multiple-narratives-one-story-of-migration-bonded-labour-and-hunger-1856777.html


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