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| Industrial workers |
Hamirpur, completly depends upon agricultural activities for livelihood those who don't have lands are working in industries and other activities.
Agricultural worker:
Old people, women, man and children almost all is involve in Agriculture, dairy, horticulture animal husbandry, but I worker and in related occupations.
Self-employed work force :
Some part of the public is engaged in this unregistered economic activity such as general stores, handicrafts and handloom workers, rural traders, farmers, etc.
Industrial workforce:
Labour in Sumerpur factories, Gutmka factories workers, building and construction workers, leather workers in Sumerpur, weavers in Pauthiya, artisans, are aur industrial workforce. Their situation is not better accept the employees of Hindustan unilever limited.
Workers in brick kilns:
Some of our backward population ingaged in this field. Every year they leave their homes for seven to eight months for Narayach, and Ghatampur zones. They are migrant workers.
Inspite of these category people involve in other organised and unorganized sector such as stone quarries, workers in chakki, contractors, drivers of vehicles, loaders and unloaders, midwives, domestic workers, barbers, vegetable and fruit vendors, newspaper vendors, pavement vendors, hand cart operators, retail, private schools, hospitals, bank, insurance and real estate.
About 30 % workers are migrant workers, they are imparting labour in Surat, Delhi and other cities.
Child labour is a also seen inside the district in shops, factories, brick knilt and farming.
Although it is an illegal act and has been a big social issue in hamirpur for years. As people are very poor and cannot manage their two times food and clothes. Thus their children went to work.
Some families are involved in bonded labour from past. They are not getting good pay from zamindars and landlords.
