INDIA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [474] | View Larger Image
Most of the Agariyas have little or no education and come from the impoverished Koli and Chuvaliya Koli tribes. Salt workers die young, they have a low life expectancy of 50-60. There is a saying in the Rann "if you're a saltpan worker, you have three ways to die: first gangrene, second TB or third blindness." Babies and young children are brought to the pans because the workers don't have a choice, some of the children as young as 10 do a full days work.
