₹8000 per day in his factory, now refuses to pick calls from unknown numbers fearing it could be debt collectors.Channapatna’s toy industry that largely operates in the narrow lanes on a small town has faced multiple hardships in the past, including a threat from cheaper Chinese replicas of the trademark wooden figurines and the state government’s enthusiam for a new, bigger toy cluster in Koppala.
As business shrank, the number of workers in Channapatna declined to just around 2,000 earlier this year from around 15,000 in the late 1990s.The state’s toy industry is valued at around $160 million.On Sunday, chief minister B.S.