Living Under Bondage - Bonded Labourers in JNU
By Venkat
16 December, 2010
Countercurrents.org
The migrant and contract labourers in Jawaharlal Nehru university, New Delhi are living a life of bondage without minimum wages, proper housing and basic facilities like toilet, drinking water etc.. This situation exists for a long time from the inception of the university in 1960's and in spite of political struggles intermittently during various times, the situation has not changed till now. The deep rooted corruption nexus between the university authorities and the Central Public Works department(CPWD), has nourished this scandal for years without any change. The sub contractors, who get the work through corrupt tender from CPWD by paying huge bribes, compensate their bribe expenses by cutting wages for the workers and denying them of their basic rights.
They make huge profit by this corrupt practise, which is being consciously overlooked by the university authorities. This film was an attempt to expose this violation and educate the students regarding the workers rights. It was shot during 2005-06 and has revived the debate and controversy regarding the violation of workers rights in JNU. This film exposes the corrupt JNU administration which is helping the contractors to violate all legal provisions and exploit the poor migrant contract labourers by denying them all basic facilities including minimum wages.
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