Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Anitha A C and her husband Chakravarthy A C have been working in a coffee estate in Ulugulli village of Kodagu district for the past 10 years. The nearest bank to their estate is 4-km away in Suntikoppa. There are four banks and three ATMs in Suntikoppa but none of the estate workers have debit cards. Anitha earns daily wages of Rs 263 or around Rs 1,500 per week. She has been to the bank thrice to exchange her existing notes since demonetisation. “It costs Rs 60 to go to the bank. Plus, we get an off only on Sunday when the bank is closed. I can't forgo a day's labour to go to the bank. In the kaapi season (November-December), we get Rs 400 or Rs 500 extra, but this time our owner has had problems in giving us cash," she says.
