Lakhimpur Kheri/ Shravasti (UP): It is a wintery February morning and a dense fog has descended over Palia, a town 100 km from Lakhimpur town in northern Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district. At a busy construction site, many girls and women are at work, carrying bricks and mortar on their head, some are hammering the bricks into small bits. There are girls as young as 14-15 years old working...
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