Spearheading the movement towards liberation of bonded labourers and child labourers throughout the country – especially in the stone quarries and brick-kilns of Haryana and Rajasthan, carpet-weaving belt of Mirzapur -Bhadoi (UP), glass-bangle industry of Firozabad (UP) and in the farm sector of Koddai Kanal (Tamil Nadu), Chennagiri Taluka of Shimoga district (Karnataka) etc. about 1,75,000 bonded (including several thousand child bonded) labourers have been released and rehabilitated in the last 20 years.

Filed many public interest litigation in the Supreme Court for the rights of bonded and child labourers. Bandhua Mukti Morcha Vs Union of India, 3 SCC 1984 is landmark judgement by the Apex court.

Testified before the Working Group of Contemporary Forms of Slavery at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva (1983-1989)

Campaigned for the National Minimum Wage for all unorganised workers. (nearly 350 million in India today)

• Led an 18-day long epochal marathon from Delhi to Deorala against the Sati (self-immolation by a widow) incidents. The Indian Parliament responded by enacting a SATI Prevention Act. 1987.
• Led march from Delhi to Pura Mahadev (Meerut) to challenge the Shankaracharay of Puri for a public debate against his obscurantists views on Sati and on women’s right to equality in the Vedas.
• Launched an agitation, along with other women’s organisations, against large scale female foeticide. This created conditions for the Government of India to pass a bill banning the sex-determination tests.

Denial of entry to the Dalits (Untouchables) into Hindu temples posed a new challenge for the struggle of the downtrodden class. As a symbol of this struggle, led a march from Delhi to the famous Nathdwara Temple (Udaipur, Rajasthan 1988-1989)

Conducted extensive tours throughout the country to promote self-confidence and awareness among the most vulnerable sections of Indian society.