Chennai: Life with 500 goats and excluded from the outside world, their families and communities, four vetravel siblings, 9, Velayutham, 8, Sundlivel, 6, and Sakthel, 7, who were in slavery, lost two years of childhood Kanak.
The children worked for the owner of Govindarajan Goat Govindarajan, a resident of Ramanathapuram, who paid their parents, Sundaraj and Bathi, Rs 62,000 and took the children to leave.
Govindarajan convinced parents to sell two younger boys for RS 6,000 each revealing their parents, who eked came out of life in the charcoal unit, sold two older boys for Rs 50,000 to lead 500 goats.
Utilizing their despicable poverty, Govindarajan convinced them to sell two younger boys for RS 6,000 each.
Govindarajan sells two boys to his relatives.
He then claimed to buy and sell boys, said P pathimaraj from Childline 1098 – Shed India, a NGO.
Pathimaraj told TII that the story of the four boys was only the tip of the iceberg from a cruel bonded labor system that applies in the Delta region.
NGOs have saved at least 40 children in recent years.
While VetriVel and Velayutham managed to escape, Govindarajan handed over their two younger siblings to the Multidepartment task unit official in Thanjavur on December 5, following the stern warning.
After a day with members of the Thanjavur District Children’s Protection Unit, Vetrivel and Velayutham smiled for the first time in two years of seeing their brothers.
“They are together after two years.
They don’t know what to talk about.
But they feel safe and safe together,” said Committee members.
Given their lives in slavery, children say they lose contact with their families.
Their single company is a herd and they take cattle to graze for no less than 10 km a day.
The day they began as the first ray of the sun stroked their village and extended to dusk.
They moved from one place to another and suffered a demon migration cycle every three to four months.
“What they eat is kanji (porridge) every day.
They rarely get the flower of the soru (rice).
They often dream of having a reducer.
The owner verbally and physically misused them.
On that day, the owner hit them very as one of the goats In his flock, “said a member of the rescue team, quoted two older boys.
Children lose social skills and find it difficult to communicate.
They are now under the care of the district child welfare committee.
After an intense investigation, which proves that boys live in slavery, the district government submits their release certificate.
“We have initiated the action against Govindarajan for forcing children to workers to bind,” said the Revenue Division officer Thanjavur M Ranjith.
Parents from children told officials that their livelihood had been greatly affected following Covid-19 pandemics and the next kuncian.
They face difficulties in making the tip meet.
That’s when Govindarajan approached them and asked them to send their children with him, promising to feed them and not give them hard work.