The note ban hit poor people the hardest. Victims of sea erosion living in a camp in Valiyathura School tell their plight. For these people who already lost their homes due to sea erosion the note ban was a double blow.

Report by Akhil K Prabhakar & Chidhambaram


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One Comment

  1. K SHESHU BABUo says:

    The poor people who toiled in rough seas and sands of coasts accumulated their blood and saved the their blood in the garb of money in five hundred and thousand rupees for future needs .
    At one stroke their blood and sweat has become a piece of paper …
    What a cruel irony of fate???!
    No! It is cruelty and barbarity of the rulers …!