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Migrant Workers From West Bengal Live Precarious Lives Amid Economic Turmoil -Sandip Chakraborty and Anirban Dey

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The migrant labourers face absolute hardship and exploitation while working outside their native states and face economic turmoil after returning home, forcing them to leave again.

Kolkata/ Baharampore: Samrat Karyi (18) of Madhupur gram panchayat of Coochbihar had gone to Rajasthan to work as a migrant labourer in the construction sector. He boarded the Bikaner Guwahati express to return home with his brother. When he was nearing the Coochbihar Junction, he went to the toilet and just then, a fatal train accident occurred, taking his life.

However, his brother's life was saved. His father, Someshwar Karyi, a septuagenarian, works as a part-time fisherman catching fish from rivers and inland water bodies. Samrat could barely make his ends meet, and as a result, with 22 others of his village, he had gone to Rajasthan for work. Subhas ray of Putimari GP area of Coochbihar too worked as a migrant labourer in a cable factory in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He was returning to see his three-month-old daughter in the train, which had earned the nickname of migrant labourers' express, when he died in the accident .

Over thousands of migrant labourers from Coochbihar go to Rajasthan to find employment every year. Then after some months, they come back with their gathered money.

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