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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Locked into the kilns, brick by brick -Varsha Bhargavi

Locked into the kilns, brick by brick -Varsha Bhargavi

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published Published on Apr 27, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 29, 2020

-Ruralindiaonline.org

Thousands of migrant workers from Odisha are stranded at Telangana's brick kilns – exploitative worksites made more difficult with the lockdown – and are running out of rations and desperate to return home

“There is no lockdown inside the brick kiln. We have been working every day as usual,” said Hruday Parabhue, when we met him on April 5. “The only change is the weekly village market is closed, so we are facing difficulties in buying foodgrains and essentials with the weekly allowance we get from our employer.”

Hruday has been working at a kiln in Telangana for three years now – pushed into this work by debt. Every year, he leaves his wife behind in Khutulumunda, their village in Turekela taluka of Odisha’s Balangir district. “I used to earn well in my village as a lohakaar [blacksmith], but fell into debt after I constructed my house. Then notebandi [demonetisation] followed,” he said, speaking in broken Hindi. “There was very little work in my village, and with my loans mounting I am forced to come here to make bricks. Everyone is in debt here [at the kiln].”   

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Ruralindiaonline.org, 27 April, 2020, https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/locked-into-the-kilns-brick-by-brick/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=NL_April_28_2020&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR3Q0qOA7zJSJLfMttBooH2zbIrUYX7uyqCGystoN80BnSy0U47Moh0e2EE


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