Toiling in the hidden corners of rural India
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11-year-old Sagira Ansari, right, rolls bidi tobacco with her family at their house in Dhuliyan, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
Sagira is among hundreds of thousands of children toiling in the hidden corners of rural India, many working in hazardous industries crucial to the economy: the fiery brick kilns that underpin the building industry, the pesticide-laden fields that produce its food.
Sagira and nearly every other child in the town of Dhuliyan works through the tobacco dust to feed India's near limitless demand for the thin, tight cigarettes. Sagira and her family earn 75 rupees ($1.50) for every 1,000 bidis rolled which brings in about 7,500 ($150) a month. — Photos by AP
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Mar 20, 2012 08:45am
We seek good suggestions from Pakistan for education, uplifting of their standard, irrespective of their cast and creed?
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Mar 24, 2012 11:18pm
Economy is not growing in both the countries,Less jobs & no new industry,even if there is industry that is shut down, due to chinese cheap goods,full of markets.
Law & order is bad in both the countries, that is a big advantage for the western countries, so that they can easily buy the presedent or the PM of our nation.
what else the poor people will do just to fill up the belly.every one needs food to survive.
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