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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Gujarat: Of Death Knells and Suicide in Surat’s Diamond Industry -Damayantee Dhar

Gujarat: Of Death Knells and Suicide in Surat’s Diamond Industry -Damayantee Dhar

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published Published on Sep 18, 2020   modified Modified on Sep 20, 2020

-Newsclick.in

The financial crisis in the diamond industry in Surat has claimed the lives of 16 workers who have died by suicide. Earlier this month, an association president ended his life as well.

Darshanbhai Rameshbhai Chaudhary, a diamond polisher by profession, had not had a job for four months. Day after day, he would stand at the diamond polishing hub in the Varacha area of Surat in the hope of being hired again. When the lockdown was announced in March this year, Darshan, like many other workers, lost hope of earning a livelihood ever again. He allegedly died by suicide in May.

Darshan, a 20-year-old, had come to Surat from the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Like many others, he hoped for a job as income from agriculture was not enough to sustain his family in his village.

A few days after Darshan ended his life, Bhupendrasinh Dhatmendrasinh, a 20-year-old youth, allegedly died by suicide in Surat before he could return home after the lockdown.

In June, 43-year-old Bharatbhai Sarvaiya, a resident of Bhavnagar, hung himself at his residence in Surat. Sarvaiya had been working as a diamond polisher in Surat for fifteen years until he was fired from his job about a year and a half ago.

“All he knew was polishing diamonds; he did not know any other work. Every day since he lost his job, he would go out and search for employment but in vain. After the lockdown his search for a job stopped,” Nimishaben, his wife said.

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Newsclick.in, 18 September, 2020, https://www.newsclick.in/gujarat-death-knells-suicide-surat-diamond-industry?fbclid=IwAR0oMuVGohC-_AjcKIarivNJO_npeNQGRjnGzyi3eADewDUVq3RZCl5F0fM


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