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Two migrant workers from Kalahandi district of Odisha were chopped off their hands after they refused to be taken by force to work at construction sites in the neighboring state of Chattisgarh. Nilambar Dhangda Majhi and Piyalu Dhangda Majhi have been admitted to hospital in Kalahandi district in the eastern state of Odisha. The Majhis said they had been hired to work in Andhra Pradesh state.They were among a dozen people who had taken advances totalling 200,000 rupees from the contractors who supply cheap migrant labourers from Kalahandi in western Odisha to work at construction sites in the bordering states. The Majhis said they were being forcibly taken away by the Routs (contractors) to the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh to work at a construction site there in contravention of the agreement between them, police said. While the workers were being transported by Routs to Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, barring Majhis all the other men escaped when their vehicle stopped on the way. The Routs were very angry and asked the Majhis to return the 200,000 rupees they had given as advance to all the workers. The Routs chopped their hands off when the expressed the inability to pay the amount.
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internal migrants, construction workers, Kalahandi, Odisha, Chattisgarh, Routs, distress migration, poverty, migrant labuor
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