Can you survive on Rs 66 per day? Inside Chhattisgarh’s midday meal workers’ protest
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What if Rs 66 is all that you earned after working hard all day? And not just one day, but every day, for years. Will you be able to survive?
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This is the question that midday meal workers in Chhattisgarh asked the government as they staged a protest in the state capital, demanding an increase in their daily wages from Rs 66 to at least Rs 350.
The government argued that midday meal workers are paid Rs 66 a day, which comes to a monthly Rs 2,000, because the work requires only two hours of their labour.
But is this the case? We travelled to the ground to find out.
Watch our report from Chhattisgarh.
Also read: Why Chhattisgarh’s midday meal workers have not given up their fight for better pay
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