Jamshedpur: The East Singhbhum barbers’ community, which dropped five of its members to suicide during the last calendar year, has pleaded with the state authorities to permit them to start their own saloons and vowed to stick to Covid-safety protocols when their requirement is approved.
The neighborhood also advocated chief minister Hemant Soren to offer financial relief to their 6,000-strong associates that are currently sitting in the home with no work.
Nai Jagriti Sangh (NJS) president Vijay Kumar Thakur explained,”Throughout the lockdown this past calendar year, four barbers committed suicide from town because of financial difficulties and at the next wave, one stopped life suddenly for the exact factors.
We cannot sit idle and wait patiently for longer suicides to occur.
The authorities ought to be sympathetic to our pleas.” On Sunday, a 55-year-old barber by Pursudih recognized as Pramod Thakur, committed suicide after confronting a fiscal crisis.
More than 500 enrolled saloons are working with 6,000 barbers from the twin industrial cities of Jamshedpur and Adityapur.
All these saloons are now permitted to start during the continuing wellness week (lockdown).
NJS overall secretary Kumar Prabhat stated,”We’ve given many representations concerning the state authorities throughout the DC and also have written straight into the CM’s office to no avail.” Aside from being not able to make their livelihood, the barbers also faced pressure out of your store proprietors to cover rents and power bills,” he explained.
Uday Thakur, a part of the team, stated,”We also have requested the authorities to provide us financial help of Rs 15,000 each barber to compensate for its reduction since last year” Jamshedpur Nai Sangh president Ramji Thakur stated barbers come in financially poor families and their range of changing jobs or starting other companies is gloomy.
“A number of our members have been attending for their own clients in the home through telephone calls although the overwhelming bulk are sitting in the home with all the expectation that the authorities allows their stores to start,” that a 30-year-old barber at town said.
He said a huge chunk of those guys in his career are natives of Bihar who live lonely in Jharkhand and couldn’t trust their own families for financial aid.
This past year, many barber groups dispersed dry food prices worth Rs two lakh one of their members but they’ve run out of cash this season.
“We’re in the middle of another wave and anticipating another fresh wave.
We fear for our future,” said Manoranjan Kumar, who owns a barbershop at Kadma marketplace.