Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 34
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Also in India, the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourers, introduced in 1978, establishes that the cost of rehabilitation grants is to be assumed on an equal basis by the central Government and the states, and provides Rs. 20,000 in compensation per labourer.
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences