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How Punjab's Dalit Labourers Are Trapped to Live a Bonded Life -Vivek Gupta

-TheWire.in A survey revealed that big peasants, who were among the top lenders to the labourers, gave them loans in the garb of paying low daily wages. Mansa, Patiala (Punjab): A narrow dirt road alongside a filthy pond enters Neelam’s one room house at Aklia village of Punjab’s Mansa district. The house is just a pile of bricks. The floor is muddy and uneven. Neelam, in her 40s, says that whenever heavy rain lashes the village, her house is under dirty pond water for days. But it is the least of her problems. Her husband, a landless Dalit labourer, died of tuberculosis in 2015, leaving her and four daughters in penury. Neelam turned to odd jobs after her husband’s death. In 2019 she got her elder daughter married and this made her life even worse. To wed her daughter, she borrowed Rs 75,000 from five upper caste zamindar families in her village (Rs 15000 from each lender). As the prevailing system goes, in lieu of interest, she had to work as a labour for their cattle as well as house chores at nominal wages. Her earnings would be adjusted against her principal amount every month. She will continue to work on the same wages until the entire loan is repaid. Two years on, she has been toiling hard all day, feeding and cleaning their cattle and also working as domestic help. Yet her loan liability is far from over. Neelam says more than 70% of her loan amount is still pending. “It is because each house deducts just Rs 400 per month from the total outstanding, which amounts to not even Rs 15 per day,” she says. Please click here to read more.