The programme aims to strengthen the understanding and knowledge of participants on working together in collaboration to address the issues of bonded labour and child labour.

• Enhance better understanding of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act and Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act and related legal framework and policies.
• To equip participants with knowledge on role and responsibilities of stakeholders and social partners in general and the law enforcement agencies andkey statutory bodies mandated to address these issues in particular.
• To enhance understanding on the linkages between bonded labour, human trafficking, and distress migration and also the intersectional dimensions of crime, exploitation, and violation of wages in the bonded labour practice.
• To discuss methods of hot-spot mapping, and transit points identification.
• To discuss the role and need for proper coordination between Police, Labour Department and District Administration in combatting the problem at different stages of rescue, rehabilitation, repatriation and prosecutionand also to discuss the role of Police as first responders to the crime.

Overview of Policies, Laws and constitutional provisions relating to child labour and bonded labour; cases studies to discuss the linkage between bonded labour, distress migration and human trafficking; role of key departments of the State Governments and the line Departments of the District Administration; Role of child Protection Mechanisms and structures; Standard Operating Procedures, Central Sector Schemes and the status of their implementation and other related matters.

Labour Department officials, Police and AHTU officials, Revenue Officials, District Administration officials including DMs and SDMs etc, Vigilance Committee members & NGOs from the States of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh.