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Like thousands of others, Gopal Sethy, a native of Orissa, too came to Chennai seeking employment. Three years after his arrival, he has become a supervisor at the Ambattur Industrial Estate, home to thousands of migrant workers hailing mostly from Orissa, West Bengal and Bihar. The influx of migrant workers to the estate started six years ago when the industrial units, facing a severe manpower crunch, began employing them. Now, of the nearly two lakh direct and indirect employees at the estate, migrant labourers, including some from Andhra Pradesh, account for nearly 30,000 working mostly in the aluminium foundries and engineering units. Several of them have worked at the estate for many years and, satisfied with their permanent jobs and a weekly off, do not wish to change jobs. Pinku Nayak, one of the workers, says, “I feel safe here. I stay close to my workplace and spend my weekly holiday playing cricket or carrom.” The native of Keonjhar district, Orissa, discontinued school after class X and followed his brothers to the estate.
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internal migrants, migrant workers, Ambattur industrial estate, migrant labour, Odisha, Chennai, employment, manpower
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