"The 2013 US TIP Report cites figures of an estimated 20 to 65 million Indian citizens in forced labour within India as a result of debt bondage.6 While this estimate is much larger than the Walk Free estimate, both estimates underscore the enormity of the problem within India itself. Many of India’s enslaved have not been moved from one place to another – they are enslaved in their own villages

Reports consistently note that India’s most significant challenge is the high number of Indian citizens in various forms of modern slavery within India’s borders. For example, the 2013 US TIP Report that suggests ninety per cent of trafficking in India is internal."