♤ Illiteracy, ignorance, lack of skills and poor implementation of legal protection. Problems faced by Bonded labour

♤ Forced to work for the employer only and not for anyone else.

♤ Force is used to make them stay. In many cases they are kept under surveillance, lock and key.

♤ Work for 12-14 hours a day and are forced to live under miserable conditions.

♤ Majority of bonded labourers works as agricultural labour in villages and belong to the Dalits or tribal communities.

♤ Bonded agricultural labourers occupy lowest rung of rural ladder.