The warp and weft of gloom and unkept promises
The HinduDowning alcohol after work is all Mallesh, 31, can think of as he toils away at a powerloom unit in Madanapalle town. Sadly, the Kancheepuram sarees enjoy a GI tag, whereas we don’t,” says K. Viswanathan, 68, an elderly powerloom owner. In the last five years, the powerloom sector families have been demanding that the YSRCP government provide them with subsidies in power consumption and procurement of raw materials. In view of such calamitous conditions, the government should think of viable ways to come to our rescue,” says Gunasekhar Nandi, 48, a powerloom worker whose wife passed away during the peak of the pandemic. If the State government here does not step up to help, you cannot expect patrons to come to the workers’ rescue every time,” Vinodh says.
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