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DUTTA NAGAR, India – Until the end of March, Ashish Kumar helped make plastic boxes for Ferrero Rocher praline chocolates and plastic spoons placed in Kinder Joy eggs to remove milky caramel cream from the inside.
With a bachelor’s degree in plastic mold technology, the 20-year-old had a foot on the career scale he had chosen.His younger brother, Aditya, chose the law, but Ashish had his purpose in plastic.
“I need to start my own business,” he said, explaining how he needs to recycle plastic to make products in his own factory.
The blockade of the coronavirus in India has ruined those plans.Educated but unemployed, Ashish Kumar is one of countless people around the world whose social progress has been halted due to the new coronavirus that has inflamed more than 2 million people in India in India and turned the economy around.With it, the aspirations of millions of people fade.
For years, others in rural India have grown in prosperity and joined what economists call a growing average consumer elegance: those who earn more than $10 a day, according to some definitions.This organization has been the cornerstone of economic progress plans in In the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s economy is expected to contract by 4.5% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund.At least 400 million Indian employees are at risk of falling further into poverty, according to the International Labour Organization.
Kumar is one of 131,000 people who, according to local authorities, have returned from paintings in India in Gonda, the northern state district of Uttar Pradesh that he left last June.Across the country, about 10 million people made a lot of time.and complicated trips back to the rural villages they had left behind.Some have returned to the cities, but many of those who returned the budget remain stuck in the countryside.
Working in a factory in Baramati, in the western state of Maharashtra, Kumar earned Rs 13,000 ($173) a month, more than double his father’s salary for a task at a cereal market near Kumar’s village house in Uttar Pradesh, a vast agrarian community.State.. Of this amount, the young man sent home some 9,000 rupees a month, much of which helped fund the education of his younger brother.
Not anymore. Once he was the caregiver of his family, he now has a monetary burden.
Kumar spends his time at his home in the village of Dutta Nagar, joking with his friends in the muddy backyard – they jokingly call him his “office” – in front of the ramshackle number one school where he studied.In Uttar Pradesh, around 60 million other people with more than two hundred million other people live in poverty, according to the World Bank.
He said it had been implemented for various jobs in plastics factories in western Gujarat and other parts of northern India, but had discovered work.
“Anyway,” he said, sitting near his parents’ single-storey house, surrounded by green jade rice paddies, “I want a job.”
As a schoolboy, Kumar became obsessed with plastics.
A possible verbal exchange with a cousin who had studied plastic engineering made him addicted, Kumar said, and began researching.In Dutta Nagar, where there was no internet connection, this meant asking one of the few locals with a smartphone on Google for opportunities..
Kumar’s ambitions were a world far from his father Ashok’s early years.The 47-year-old man, who cares about weighing and pricing cereal crops, remembers when the circle of relatives did not have enough food or proper clothing.
A nice guy with his face battered by bad weather, he never finished high school.
“I don’t think young people fall into our routine.They push the front,” he said.
Kumar, who claims that he has never tried a Praline by Ferrero Rocher, graduated from Gujarat last June and took advantage of the exercise to start running as a technician in an Italian factory 1,500 km from his home.
The plant used by it is managed through Dream Plast India, a subsidiary of Gruppo Sunino SpA, an Italian plastics manufacturer with 10 factories worldwide.”The first-class factory,” Kumar.Su contract said, included a monthly contribution from the company to a pension fund and a bonus.The workers received one meal a day, the supervisors were friendly and paid on time, he said.
Six days a week, his task was to regularly supervise two machines and two contractors; at the end of the day, I played a badminton game or watched the fight on YouTube.
His source of income from the previous year helped his parents build an authentic four-piece brick house, after decades of living in a dust hut where the roof let in heavy monsoon rains.He helped pay his brother’s registration fees at Bahraich Law School.an hour and a half drive from his village house.
Then the COVID-19 hit.
Kumar first heard about coronavirus in early March.When the closure of India forced Dream Plast India to close its Baramati plant on March 21, it had enough cash to wait for it in the city.
As the pandemic spread across India, a survey of some 5,000 employees in April and May found that 66% of participants had lost their jobs and 77% of families were eating less food than before. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced 20 trillion rupees. package that promises rice, wheat and pulses in bulk for millions of others and a program to create jobs in rural areas.
Even for those who work, industry unions and labour experts say the situation is deteriorating, especially for migrants.
In May, Indian state governments issued rules of aptitude and protection for factories when they reopened after closing, including mandatory face masks, thermal detection, social estrangement, and common disinfection.identified the Kumars.
Indian states, which added Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, said in May that they were trying to roll back workers’ rights, adding debilitating regulations on wages and working hours, to the industry.The proposal generated complaints from workers’ unions and the ILO.have only come into force in some states.
The Kumar plant, which reopened in early May, did not respond to a query about the measures taken in that country, however, Dream Plast India general manager Nitin Gupta said in an email that “the company takes every precaution to comply with the legislation.”Times. He refused to give further details.
Still, Kumar and some other Reuters workers said they didn’t feel like coming back.
Ferrero SpA, the Italian pastry chef, said he had audited the factory where Kumar was working in March 2020 and did not discover any irregularities, but would review in the following months.
Reuters could not independently be able to protect the measures taken through the plant.
By early June, Kumar’s budget had run out and even buying food is struggling.
His parents were worried. “No matter how little cash I had here in the bank, I sent him some so he could eat,” said his father, Ashok. “At that time, he was very scared. The biggest challenge for him was going to happen at home.
India’s rail network reopened in early May.On June 3, Kumar borrowed cash to pay for a 48-hour home by train, bus and shared taxi, and then went into quarantine for 14 days.
On June 25, Dream Plast India sent him an email, which he notified through Reuters, asking him to show up for paintings within 4 days or face dismissal.Instead, he resigned on July 20.
His parents feared he would leave the space again, saying they learned that without the income of his eldest son, his younger brother would not be able to finish his law school.
Kumar is not in a position to leave his plastics factory.
“I will, ” he said. Whatever it takes, I’ll make my dream come true.”
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