PUNE/BEED: On the very second day of his job as a construction labourer, Avin Pandurang Sangle fell off an under-construction building in Pune and died. Thousands of cane cutters like Sangle traditionally migrate from their villages in Ahmednagar and Beed districts to the sugarcane fields of western Maharashtra to earn a livelihood. Nagorao Bandu Rathod, 42, and his wife Shobhabai …
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Women cane cutters are required to work for 13 to 18 hours a day without any weekly rest day. Kakuste also informs that many years ago, the Supreme Court had said that cane cutters are workers and entitled to all benefits, but evidently nothing came of that. A new study, Crushed Hopes: The Plight of Women Cane Cutters in Maharashtra, …
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