A daily struggle for daily wagers
The Hindu
Fear of losing work has made them cling onto their jobs, braving heat and injuries besides making do with half their usual wages
On a roadside in west Delhi’s Raghubir Nagar, Inder Yadav, a 49-year-old construction worker, was dripping in sweat under the searing sun. His right hand is injured, he manages with half the wages he used to get in the past, yet he keeps plugging on so that he could feed his family. A resident of Bihar’s Samastipur, Inder, who lives in Vikas Nagar with his wife and four children, is a daily wager. Whether his children will get meals for the next two days depends on what he earns on a particular day. For over a month, he and his wife often fooled their children saying that the food they were eating was not just plain flour. “There were days when my wife made chapatis and to show children that there’s something to eat the chapati with, she would add water to wheat flour and tell them it is gram flour instead and that they were eating kadhi,” he says as he broke into tears. “There have been days when we ate only salt and chapati. Today, I’ve brought only chapatis and potato for lunch”.More Related News
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