20 May 2011

An extract from the Times of India, Lucknow:

Bonded labourers get land title after 70 years: Octogenarian Sita Devi was in tears when district magistrate of Gonda, Ram Bahadur, handed her the land ownership title.

She was five-year-old when her family was forced into bonded labour by British forest officers posted in Gorakhpur. The family was given a piece of land for planting trees and to grow crops for its survival.

Sita is among 33 families, residents of forest village, Maheshpur in Gonda who were given land ownership title by the district magistrate, Ram Bahadur on Saturday.

Source: Ashish Tripathi , Times News Network (TNN), Lucknow

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