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Hit hard by cracker bans, Sivakasi’s fireworks workers are missing a transition plan -Hariprasad Radhakrishnan
-TheNewsMinute.com
Caught between denialism and short-sightedness, vulnerable communities in Sivakasi bear the brunt of clampdowns due to air pollution.
At the strike of a gavel in Delhi, lights go out in Sivakasi. When states located thousands of kilometres away place curbs, sales turn out to be a damp squib in the fireworks capital.
Year after year, about 6.5 lakh people in Sivakasi dependent on the fireworks industry suffer from rude market shocks because of last-minute policy and judicial responses to air pollution around the time of Deepavali. The workers in the fireworks industry — most of whom are just as vulnerable to economic shocks as people with respiratory ailments are to the pall of smoke in big cities — are almost invariably dealt a bad hand.
The economic impact, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has left workers with lower income and fewer job opportunities in the lurch as the fireworks industry has scaled down its production. “When times were better, I used to make 7,000-8,000 pieces a day,” says P Vetrivel, a 30-year-old contract worker who specialises in making rocket crackers. For every hundred pieces he makes, he is paid Rs 8. “I now make up to 5,000 pieces a day due to low demand. So, my wages have come down to nearly Rs 400 from around Rs 500-600 per day.” The loss of income, he says, has translated to choosing government hospitals over private facilities, buying fewer new clothes for children, and lower alcohol consumption.
