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Impact on Morbi Ceramics Factories
Comparison of active vs closed manufacturing units in the Morbi ceramic hub due to the fuel crisis.
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Iran war forces job losses, reverse migration in India's ceramic hub ...
Morbi, India – For seven years, Pradeep Kumar would walk into the ceramics factory in western India at 9am, load raw materials – clay, quartz and sand – into the kiln, and spend the day around the heat and dust of the furnaces.He handled the clay at different stages, sometimes feeding it into machines, sometimes moving semi-processed pieces towards firing. The work was repetitive and demanding, with no protective gear, such as gloves and masks, against the high temperatures.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Tear gas fired at India workers demanding higher wages as living costs riselist 2 of 4Tougher testing for Indian athletes in ‘extremely high’ doping risk bracketlist 3 of 4Why many Kashmiris are donating gold, breaking piggy banks for Iranlist 4 of 4Muslims the target? Fury as millions lose voting rights in India’s Bengalend of list“It would be very challenging in the summers since the heat would be at its peak,” he told Al Jazeera.But on March 15, he lost his job – not because of anything he or the company behind his factory had done, but because the United States and Israel attacked Iran, triggering another war in the Middle East and a global fuel crisis.Barely two weeks after the war began, the ceramics company where he worked shut down due to a shortage of propane and natural gas. The company, in Morbi in Gujarat state – like all of its peers in the ceramics industry – depends on these critical ingredients.Morbi is the centre of India’s ceramics industry that employs more than 400,000 people. More than half of these workers, like Kumar, are migrants from poorer Indian states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.Workers inside a ceramics factory in Morbi [Jigyasa Mishra/Al Jazeera]Five days after Kumar lost his job, the 29-year-old took his wife and their three children back to their home in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district.“I am here until every other migrant worker who came back home with us goes back,” he told Al Jazeera.“We don’t want to suffer like dogs, like we did during the COVID-19 pandemic,” he added, referring to the 2020 and 2021 exodus of migrant workers from India’s more industrialised western states to the poorer east, with millions of starving families, including children, walking on foot for days and sometimes weeks to reach their homes amid a coronavirus lockdown.About 450 of 600 companies shutWith more than 600 companies, Morbi produces about 80 percent of India’s ceramics in the form of tiles, toilets, bathtubs and wash basins....
West Asia war impacts Gujarat's ceramic industry with gas shortages and ...
Since the beginning of the war, these two clusters are struggling due to a shortage of propane, with many units closing shops.
The war in the Middle East has compounded an already sluggish ...
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Iran's War Fallout: Hundreds Of Thousands Lose Jobs As Economy Crumbles
After six weeks of war, job losses are growing in Iran. Destroyed industrial facilities have brought production in many sectors to a standstill, hitting Iranian workers particularly hard.
