Crores Meant for Labourers Spent on Ads, But Little Effect on Ground | Read

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In sweltering heat, 45-year-old Parul Mandal works almost 12 hours every day at a construction site in south Delhi, making Rs. 50 daily to support her family of six. She has been working for the past 24 years, but has never heard of a welfare fund for labourers, which would have paid scholarship for her children's education, or given her maternity benefits.

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