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Where farms produce more bricks than crops 

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Financial needs push farmers in Perera Pur village in Uttar Pradesh lease out their land to kilns. Making bricks with the topsoil of a farm reduces soil fertility, productivity and income, forcing farmers into a vicious cycle of economic challenges.

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These workers keep the brick kilns burning despite hardships

In Barkhedi Abdulla, a village dotted with brick kilns, local and migrant workers continue to toil under the sun despite hardships, hoping that the clay they mould will shape their lives for the better.

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स्थानीय आजीविकाओं से शोषणकारी श्रम-तस्करी पर लगा अंकुश

गरीब ग्रामीणों को बंधुआ प्रवासी मजदूर बनने से रोकने के लिए, ओडिशा सरकार को, बिचौलियों से मुक्ति और बेहतर मजदूरी के साथ ग्रामीण रोजगार गारंटी कार्यक्रम सम्बंधी नए प्रयासों को मजबूत बनाना होगा।

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Local livelihoods curb exploitative labor trafficking

To stop poor villagers from becoming bonded migrant labor, the Odisha government needs to strengthen latest steps to cut out middlemen and boost the rural jobs guarantee program with higher wages

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Migrant children get a shot at continuing education

A scheme by the Odisha government has enabled children of migrant workers to continue their education at destination sites, preventing child labor and ensuring continuity in education

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Odisha’s seasonal hostels help curb child migration and child labor

Poor villagers in Odisha’s migration-prone districts, who toil at brick kilns in the southern states for most part of the year, have found some succor in seasonal hostels that educate and nourish their children in a safe haven

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Watermelons stem distress migration in Odisha’s hunger belt

Forced to migrate due to poverty and recurrent droughts, and with no better life in faraway brick kilns, farmers in western Odisha have turned to watermelon cultivation, reaping rich benefits