Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
Workers live in a shanty which is five feet in height, with a flimsy plastic cover serving as a roof and walls that are made of loosely arranged bricks. There is no electricity, not for a day or two, but for months. Women bathe in green, stagnant water at an open sump. Such are the living conditions of a group of 40 bonded labourers and their families who live at the 'Sagar brick kiln' at Kanumpalli Crossroad abutting NH-44 (Bengaluru-Hyderabad highway) at Garladinne mandal in Anantapur district. The workers hail from Bolangir in Odisha and were sent here several months ago by a 'manpower supply contractor'.
