An amount of Rs. 33.00 crore has been allocated for the Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourer, 2016 from 2016-17 to 2019-20.

Since 2016, the year-wise expenditure under CSS 2016 for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourers is as follows:

                                                                                       Rs. In Lakh

2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20
260.70	664.50	253.50	05.00 (till date)

 

Under the Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Laoburer- 2016, a bonded labour rehabilitation fund is created at the District level by each State with a permanent corpus of at least Rs.10 Lakh at the disposal of the District Magistrate. This fund is utilized for extending immediate financial help to the released bonded labour. Immediate financial assistance up to Rs.20,000/- per bonded labour is provided by the concerned District Magistrate from the corpus fund. This amount is fully reimbursed by the Central Government to the State Government. The onus of providing corpus to the Districts for the rehabilitation of the bonded labour is on the State Government and no such data is maintained by the Central Government.

This information was given by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (I/C) for Labour and Employment in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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