‘I don’t know what I can do for living now, may be, I will grow crops on ranted land again, something what I used to do before I went to ship breaking yard to work’. Says Bahadur, who can no longer work in the yard what his injures. When a worker becomes disabled by a major accident, he gets a maximum of 10 to 15 thousand taka (1 USD=71 taka) and forced back to his home district. In most cases a worker will only get transportation costs to go back to their home district.
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