The workers are paid $2.00 a day and given only bamboo mats with which to construct
their flimsy shelters. No food allowance is given as well as no health care or education
for the young children who accompany their parents. The contracts are usually for 10
months after which time, the Indians must go back home. They are not offered any
means by which to seek Bhutanese citizenship. The women work as hard as the men, often
with very young children in tow along the roadsides where they seem in imminent danger
of being run over. The basic work is the creation of gravel by smashing larger
boulders and rocks.
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