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Travails Of Landless Labour - The Untold Story Of Punjab’s Agricultural Success -Sandeep Chachra

-Outlook India

Sandeep Chachra is Executive Director, ActionAid Association and Co-chair of the World Urban Campaign, UN-Habitat. He discusses and expresses views of the ground reality of the success behind Punjab's Agriculture Industry.

"Microfinance companies are breaking our backs.  Many women in our block have taken loans that they can't repay.  During COVID, these loans have swelled up, and the company agents threaten us, take away our belongings, our gas cylinders.  I know women whose husbands have become "siri" (bonded labour) to repay the loans.  We need loan write-offs.  We need work." 

I was speaking with Gurmeet Kaur, a Dalit activist.  We were both attending the Gulami Mukti Mela, organized to celebrate the memory of Jai Singhji, the founder of Volunteers of Social Justice (VSJ) , who had died last year.  Gurmeet Kaur is a member of Dalit Dastan Virodhi Andolana (DDVA) and the MGNREGA Workers Union.  These are organizations carrying on the work of putting an end to bonded labour and ending caste and gender discrimination.

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