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bamboo mats with which to construct their flimsy shelters. No food
allowance is given as well as no health care or education for the young
children who accompany their parents. The contracts are usually for 10
months after which time, the Indians must go back home. They are not
offered any means by which to seek Bhutanese citizenship. The women
work as hard as the men, often with very young children in tow along the
roadsides where they seem in imminent danger of being run over. The basic
work is the creation of gravel by smashing larger boulders and rocks.
