PM Deuba added unequal labor relations and exploitative practices as Harawa Charawa and Kamaiya, among others, have been abolished and the indentured families under such practices have been freed of their debts through the Abolition of the Kamaiya Practice Act, 2058 BS. The Prime Minister directed all the bodies concerned to also run special targeted programs on a priority basis for increasing entrepreneurship among the families of such freed bonded laborers to make them self-reliant and for developing their skills and capacity for their long-term socio-economic progress.

“It is necessary for the three tiers of the government and the bodies concerned to be committed for boosting up the freed Kamaiyas’ self-respect, independence and honor by making them economically self-reliant,” he asserted.

PM Deuba, on the occasion, said that along with the emancipation of the Kamaiya and the Harawa Charawa indentured labor practices, works of increasing their income by creating employment opportunities for the freed Harawa Charawa and Kamaiyas and their families was equally necessary. KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has directed the government’s ministry concerned to identify the problems facing the freed Kamaiyas and seek ways of addressing them.Īddressing a program organized on the occasion of the 22nd year of the declaration of abolishment of the Kamaiya (bonded labor) practice in Baluwatar on Monday, he instructed the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation for carrying out the necessary action for fully rooting out this evil practice.

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