Sugar-belt shocker: the financial and sexual abuse of Maharashtra’s migrant workforce
The HinduEvery year before Dussehra, a mukadam shows up in Maharashtra’s drought-hit Beed district, where Durga, 34, and her family of four live. For decades now, about 12 lakh to 15 lakh people migrate within the State, from dry Marathwada, to western Maharashtra’s Sangli, Kolhapur, Pune, Satara, Solapur, and Ahmednagar — also known as the sugar belt. “Fearing loss of employment, which would further push them into financial trouble, the women won’t come out, so these incidents go unreported,” he says. “I can’t miss work three or four days in a month, so like many others from Beed district, I too underwent the surgery,” she says. The government should give employment to at least 80% of these workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act,” the farmers’ rights activist says, unrealistically.
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