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Over 1.4 Lakh Labourers Toil in Maharashtra Sugar Mills Without Safety Measures -Varsha Torgalkar

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As harvest is on, labourers want to return to their villages since they are scared of being exposed to COVID-19 as mill owners have not provided them any facility, like water, food, shelter or sanitisers.

Pune: Sanjay Aladar, 37, who is currently harvesting  sugarcane at Palus village in Maharashtra, stays at the farm and shares a common toilet and washroom with other labourers. Scared of transmission of COVID-19 that is spreading in the state, he now wants to return to his village in Solapur, as the sugar mill he works for has not provided the labourers food, a safe place to live in or any medicine or sanitiser.

Sanjay, his wife and nine more couples from the same village in Sangli district, also struggle everyday to get water from the nearby wells as local residents refuse to allow them access to the water available there.

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