New Delhi: Niranjan Singh, a labourer at a steel and stone shop at Singhu border, is close to desperation. “I don’t know how I will feed my family if this continues,” says Singh dolefully. The farmers’ protest at the border for almost a year now has singed him. He used to take home Rs 500-1,000 daily before the protesters converged on the border in November last year. Right now, he earns Rs 100 a day if he is lucky, Rs 200 at most, because work has ground to a halt due to the agriculturists’ sit-in.
Daily-wage earners and shop owners are facing the brunt of the inactivity caused by the farmers squatting in the locality and hampering road movement. Welder Nadeem, for instance, said Kaam to hai hi nahi (there is absolutely no work). I was getting Rs 18,000 a month earlier. Now I don’t get customers for even a week at a stretch.”
On Friday, the Supreme Court expressed concern at the continuing blockade of roads in and around Delhi by the farmers agitating against three central legislations, and shopkeepers and workers agreed on Saturday that the blockade had to end if the residents of the border localities were to survive.
This story is from the October 03, 2021 edition of The Times of India Delhi.
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