Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
"I was kicked and beaten with a slipper when I said I could not work as I was pregnant," complains four-month-pregnant Savita (name changed) in Odia as her husband stands next to her. The couple from Bolangir district of Odisha had come to a brick kiln here on a promise her husband would be paid Rs. 350 a day. But what he ended up getting was a shocking Rs. 20 per day.
