What Hinders 'Make In India' Dreams Of Weavers In PM Modi Constituency?

BANGALORE: The announcement of the “Make In India” programme might have brought a smile upon every local manufacturer in India but at the same time there are some dark spots that are hindering in the process of development of this programme.

In the Kutwa village of Varanasi, there is a community of weavers who manufacture handmade silk sarees, which are exported all over the world. But from the past 2 years their families are struggling with the infectious disease Tuberculosis (T.B.).  Ramzan Ali, a member of such family is under the attack of T.B. for 2 years now and he regularly suffers from fever and cough accompanied by dizziness at times.

The suffering doesn’t ends here, Ramzan’s elder brother Ghulam was also a T.B. patient. The popular television show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ highlighted the story of Ghulam in October this year. He lost his life just about 15 days after the show went on air.

This is just about two boys in the community who worked hard to manufacture sarees in several days and in return they get around 1000 per saree for their intense labour. There are still thousand and lakhs of such local manufacturers who are still not provided proper health and care services.

A local health worker Praveen Kumar Singh, who works with a programme aimed at controlling TB, said, ”Many remain undiagnosed either due to lack of access to treatment or the stigma attached to the disease. Every household here will have one patient if everyone is checked,” reports NDTV. 

Further analysis about the working conditions for these weavers revealed that most of them work in confined rooms that increases the risk involved in the disease.

Farzan Ali, the father of Ramzan has not even heard of PM Modi's 'Make in India' slogan, but still hopes that his MP will deal this matter with iron hands to safeguard the interest of 2 lakh weaver community.

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