Bhubaneswar, Nov. 3 -- As per informal estimates, over 2.5 million people from Odisha migrate to other states for livelihood. While industrialised states and mega cities have offered job opportunities to younger segments of unemployed persons of Odisha, thousands of people in the state of acute economic distress have resorted to migration for jobs like brick making and moved to states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

Migration to work in brick kilns demonstrates human distress in most acute form. Children too are engaged in brick making while they ought to have been in school.These children when they grow up, lose opportunities available to educated youths. Most workers don't get the wage and working environment promised du...