₹250 to ₹300 a day, and few paid attention to his caste.But building sites shut down when Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed the nationwide lockdown to contain the virus.
Back home, Banskar says work created through government jobs programs are mostly allocated by the village headman to upper caste workers.Nine migrants interviewed by Bloomberg News in several Indian states had stories that were similar to Banskar’s, showing how the pandemic is widening one of the nation’s sharpest inequities, the social hierarchy determined by India’s ancient caste system, which can often determine everything from social interactions to economic opportunities.
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