Invigorating the government’s drive against bonded labour, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has suggested, among others, setting up a “Task Force” to examine obstacles and challenges in implementation of measures in vogue to eradicate the social evil...NHRC Chairperson and former Chief Justice of India, HL Dattu, observed that despite a plethora of laws and schemes “the records of national governance, public investment and development action yield little matching evidence of substantive work towards elimination of bonded labour...As long as there is poverty, unemployment, underemployment, landlessness, migration, indebtedness, the pernicious bonded labour system will continue...Other suggestions thrown up during the seminar include revision in Minimum Wages Act of 1948 to bring parity in the wages of skilled labour with the lowest paid employee of the Central government as per the seventh Pay Commission.