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INDIAN ROAD WORKERS

Despite being an agrarian, subsistence farming society for the most part,

Bhutanese people have a decided dislike for the physically demanding work
of road-building and pretty much refuse to take part in the constant

roadwork going on in the country. The Bhutanese unembarrassedly believe

that such work is beneath them.

For this reason, the government contracts with Indian companies which hire

whole families of Indians living in the northernmost states of India,
particularly Assam, to perform the necessary road construction and repair.

These folks must have no prospects at all in their home states because they

are eager to get these onerous jobs which pay so very little and offer such

pitiful living conditions. The workers are paid $2.00 a day and given only