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Prabhakar Bhagyawant got 30 stitches after he fell 20 ft  from a tractor transporting #sugarcane. He lost 45 work days, couldn’t work off a an advance payment. @iyerkavi on a debt bondage system that persists in #India's richest state economy

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“Neither the sugar factory nor the labour contractor will pay for medical expenses.” Bhagyawant, 39, of Dharur in #Beed, #Maharashtra, has migrated to #Karnataka for 20 years as #sugarcane harvest worker. The Rs 25,000 hospital bill will be recovered from his pay

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Cane harvest worker Adinath Sonawane died in 2020 in Pune district when a truck his his motorbike as he returned to the fields from the #sugar factory. Union leaders managed to get ex gratia payment for his family, but his wife Parvati can no longer find regular work 

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