Seven Mising Workers Rescued from Alleged Labour Abuse
Roing/Sadiya, June 9: Seven Mising youths from Assam's Sadiya subdivision were rescued from a construction site in Arunachal Pradesh after allegedly enduring physical abuse, starvation, and inhuman working conditions. The rescue operation was conducted on Monday by members of the Sadiya district units of the Takam Mising Porin Kebang (TMPK) and the Mising Mimag Kebang (MMK) following distress calls from the workers and their families. According to TMPK, the youths from the Amarpur area had been lured by local middlemen with promises of employment and were later engaged under a contractor at a culvert construction site linked to the Lower Dibang Hydroelectric Project in Roing. One of the rescued workers alleged that they had been taken to the site by an individual identified as Nigam Doley and subjected to repeated abuse. “We had not been given anything to eat for two days. When we tried to leave and return home in search of food, some people stopped us, took us back, and as...