Brick Kiln Lobourers Poem by Gajanan Mishra

Take advance
Rs 60,000/-
And come to
Hyderabad
To work
In brick kiln.
Every facility
You would get
Worry not.

Relying on
These words
Bunga Baria
Aged 36 of
Kalahandi, Odisha
Left home
With wife
And one son,
One daughter.

But at Hyderabad
Baria got
No facility
Not even wages
Every week.
And lack of food
Developed
Health issues
Of son and daughter
Aged seven and four.

No medicine
No food
Son died there
In makeshift
Plastic tent
Near brick kiln,
The owner and
Contractor
Took no care.

No case of
Human trafficking
Reported by officials,
No data to take measures
To mitigate plight,
This is Odisha,
In light.