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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Ticking time bomb: The perilous lives of garment workers amid the pandemic -Vaibhav Raghunandan

Ticking time bomb: The perilous lives of garment workers amid the pandemic -Vaibhav Raghunandan

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published Published on Feb 24, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 15, 2022

-Down to Earth blog

Women workers in garment industry share stories of gender discrimination, insensitive treatment and government apathy 

The garment industry has long been under the microscope for flouting labour codes, breaking environmental norms, violating human rights, pay structures and much more. The women garment workers who attended an orientation workshop at a hotel on Delhi-Gurugram road October 2021, headed by Society for Labour and Development (SLD), know about these flaws.

In many cases, they have protested and fought to amend many of those violations themselves. For the past year and half, their struggles have looked slightly different.

Under the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, the poor suffered disproportionately. Their story is about poverty, hunger, curtailed education and lives lived in fear. 

There is no analysis of what has occurred so far during the pandemic and what is yet to come. The challenge, forever it seems, will be to consolidate the narrative and find ways to fix the future. 

‘It’s a ticking time bomb’

Rajeshwari, 50, shifted from her village in Chhapra in Bihar to Kapashera in Delhi 15 years ago. The reason was simple: Her husband, an abusive alcoholic, wouldn’t find work in the village and wreaked havoc on the family. 

To protect the children from his influence, the elders decided to separate the family. She shifted to the city with her husband, the kids stayed home with her mother.

Over the years, while her husband worked at a cotton mill, Rajeshwari took up a job as a tailor at a garment factory in Gurugram. He blew his pay on alcohol and gambling and the money she earned ran the two-person household.

Three years ago when he passed away after suffering from complications due to alcohol abuse, she was left alone, responsible now not just for her own wellbeing but also for her younger son’s education in the village. It wasn’t smooth sailing with a salary of Rs 10,400 as a migrant in a city but it soon got worse.

“In the first lockdown, the company closed its doors, and suddenly we couldn’t go to work,” she said, adding: 

There was a real fear about the virus, but there was also a fear from the police who wouldn't even let us out to get supplies. The company would give us Rs 2,000 every month as compensation, and I won’t deny that was more than many others I know were getting.

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Down to Earth blog, 24 February, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/governance/ticking-time-bomb-the-perilous-lives-of-garment-workers-amid-the-pandemic-81690?fbclid=IwAR2TX8cUTDre0XAM3VJvkAkTyJtny4HUmNC7LWzFsf6wUQN1gLKpZdUj9nE


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