As Unemployment Strikes The Gulf, Wives Back Home Pay A Price
Pandeeswari's husband Balamurugan, a welder, left for Kuwait just seven months after their wedding but has not come home for close to a year. Not even to see his new born girl baby Yuvathi. One in every five houses in the neighbourhood at Vembakkam in Tamil Nadu's Kancheepuram district, around 100 km from Chennai, has a member who works overseas. The employment crisis in the Gulf - where 70 lakh Indians work - has intermittently rendered many like Balamurugan jobless.
