This article underlines the role of sugar factories and the government health system in providing health services to sugarcane cutters. It highlights if and how existing health service providers solve workers' health issues by emphasizing the nature of health services on which these workers depend. Every year sugarcane cutters seasonally migrate from the drought-prone or tribal districts towards the sugar belt of Maharashtra. It mainly constitutes illiterate/less educated, poor, lower castes and landless/small landholders. It is well known that these workers confront numerous problems and compromise at multiple levels. Specifically, exploitation of labor rights, issues related to housing and sanitation, deprivation of children from education, issues related to accessing citizenship rights, etc. Together these issues accentuate that these workers are neglected multilaterally. In the same way, their health issues are sidelined and not even a part of at least any discourse.
Published Date: 2023-10-11; Received Date: 2023-05-22
