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Time is tough for manual labourers, where even healthy men balk at the thought of doing heavy lifting.
But these hard workers labour on for just a small meal despite keeping fasts.
They pick heavy weights in an effort to uplift their lives.
Our driver gets our salaries for us. We take whatever we get quietly.
We get Rs2 for each sack. They take Rs40 but give us Rs2. We are keeping fasts and also working.
In this time of high inflation, getting paid Rs2 for each sack means each laborer lifts hundreds of sacks to earn Rs300-500 a day.
However, the shop owners say they compensate the labourers enough.
Their labour amounts to Rs300-500 a day, we pay about Rs3 per sack.
People worry about working hard while fasting, but these labourers push their bodies to the limits for their families.