Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
On Tuesday, Usha Rani, a 37-year-old garment factory worker in Tirupur, skipped work and stood in a queue outside an SBI bank to withdraw money from her bank account. Her daily wage of Rs 400, which she lost, is "for the nation", she chuckles. Ever since factory owners decided to deposit the wages of their employees in their bank accounts, post demonetisation, workers such as Usha have had to queue up outside banks at this garment manufacturing hub in Tamil Nadu.
