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NEW DELHI: Santosh Majhi had accepted his lot in life. Rs 10 a day for 16 hours of work at the brick kiln in Telangana’s Peddapalli. Home was far away in Odisha and seemed further away with each passing day. Like others in his village, he had believed the man who promised to pay off his debt in exchange for work. A year in, he had realised he was in bondage. But when the representative of a human rights organisation got in touch, he and the 360 others with him refused to leave.
“They were not willing. They said there was too much poverty back home, money lenders would hound them and all prospects of jobs had dried up because of the pandemic. So, they had decided to simply submit to the atrocities,” Dr K Krishnan, executive director of Foundation for Sustainable Development, which eventually did rescue them, told TOI.