The daily wage labourers have no other means of livelihood, so they have to toil through the day in soaring temperatures to ensure they and their families don't go hungry.
Some areas of the national Capital have recorded temperatures of 43 degrees Celsius and even touched 49 degrees Celsius last week.
Millennium Post talked to people who work as daily wage labourers and their work included scaling the walls, laying concrete, and carrying heavy loads, with only ragged scarves around their heads as protection against the sun.
This story is from the May 20, 2022 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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