Until 24 March, Ratnakala held a job at a garment factory, sewing children’s frocks destined for Europe, at a factory in Sarjapur, a textile hub in Bengaluru.
Over the last few weeks, she’s been looking for work as a domestic help, after the factory supervisor said they were shutting operations for the duration of the lockdown. “I’d prefer to work in the factory, but I’m not sure when it will open.
I have two children. I need a job and it does not matter where," she said. Nearly 500,000 people, mostly women, work in the garment factories near Bengaluru, including Bidadi, Chikkaballapur, Mysuru, Mandya and Ramangara.
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