.. visits to worksites in three backward districts of Yeotmal, Hingoli and Nanded in Maharashtra ... reveal a horrific picture of inhuman conditions at the worksite, extremely low piece rate wages for hard manual labour and, most shocking of all, women doing a nine-hour day of heavy work at public worksites entirely without payment.She calls for an urgent "course correction". Will it happen?
Update: I wanted to mention two lines from the article which made me do a double-take:
1. There were at least 25 children at the site but there was no crèche.
Where does she come from? I agree there should have been a creche. But I would have to be a dreamer to actually expect one at a digging site.
2. Therefore, urgent course correction is required including militant mobilisation of the people. (Italics mine).
Militant mobilisation? Of the Maoist kind?
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