Report of the Pathoremanush:              (The Narrative of labor) 

Project funded by  Goethe Institute:       (Five million incident)

It's a Process-based engagement, where documentation and interaction are the primary concern of the space. As we know, Bricks factories everywhere exist in the country and outside of the country. But the question about how it's work? 

So, in this context, I started my engagement in Silchar, one of the brick kill factories within many factories. This place earlier was tea state land, as the name of the silcoorie tea state. That land sold to bricks manufacturers in time of approx. 90's.  As fast visit interaction with labor is quite silent, for each other, Elian relation & try to understanding Who? & why? After the contentious visit to the place, they started interaction slowly later; it's become a comfort zone. 

Problem with North-East area weather is the major issue because of rain where they can work a maximum of six months during the summer and wintertime. During the rain time, they are doing their own fishery business. Fishery business is one of the essential survival factors for them. Due to low land, most of the farming areas covert to the wetland. These labor community shifted to the highland—every year, there house under the water in a situation of flood. 

There two types of labor parts of the factory are permanent labor, and another is daily labor. Continuous employment mostly comes from different states' major components from Bihar state. The regular job is from local. They have work division like daily labor are involved with Making & carrying. Permanent labored are involved with arranging the bricks and burring conditions. Because they have to work and till night to check the status of the blocks. 

The company took different tow sources of labor because they are facing any problem due to labor wages or some demands from the labor part. Sometimes labor group split with migrated and local employment, so the labor Union is failure sometimes. During the time, work never stop run by the migrated worker. 

Labor wages are different, too; Permanent migrated labor earns a basic monthly salary. Also, they are getting room to stay over there. Commune kitchen for them, and daily worker for them they don't have a fixed salary, if they are making one brick, then they will get approx.01:00 rs, how many bricks they can make in one day they will get one-day wages. Earlier it was approx — 0.60 paisa. Blocks are carrying labour for female earn in one round with eight cubes they get approx. 1.50 rs. For male 14 blocks get approx — 2:00 rs per round. For them, wages are challenging to survive with their family; that's why next-generation is less part of the primary education or higher education. Due to the wage crisis for the Satanity is too high. 

What can I bring to society from the narrative? 

This question makes me challenges because it's difficult to bring anything. Moreover, whatever I can bring that space, that's the only face of the circumstances. Goethe Institute belongs in the place, where I can remember only interevent through the narration. Institute is the space in the capital city of Kolkata. There is a very decorated space in urbanity. So, I try to create an obstacle and interactive engagement surrounded by space. I chose the library, coffee shop, and a common area where ordinary people can access space. For that, I use the bricks as my primary objects; after that, I curved the blocks as Text(word) format. The text comes from their voice and crisis, which I mention through bending bricks within a space. That curving bricks I put in many areas like library bookshelf with many books, corridors, behind the door, staircase, etc. Through that display, I try to create a question of what & why? I hung a big size of flex with text and images, which produce an obstacle within the comfort zone of library space and common area as well as a coffee shop. The etiquette of the coffee shop is a tinny space where this hanging flex creates a discomfort environment. All though I put the curving bricks and writing pad for anonyms comment about their idea & understanding of bricks factory. Two video documentations cover the library wall and entrance wall. 

Reference of the video and working process in the bricks factory  

They have Migrated laborer from a different state who's working during the vacation too. but this work is highly risk factor. we can notice the safety issue and process of the work. 

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Brief of Pathor -Tila Village

Pathor -Tila, is situated at Cachar District of Assam State which is located 12 km towards South from District headquarter Silchar, it is one of the nearby villages to Silcoorie which earlier was itself a part of Silcoorie village. Silcoorie is a village in Barjalenga Tehsil in Cachar. This is surrounded by Narsingpur Tehsil Towards the south, Sonai Tehsil towards East, Silchar Tehsil towards the north. 

In the discussion with local village people and the workers of the bricks factory, one of the oldest villagers Md.Mustar Ali shared about Pathor Tila that the entire area which is covered with small streams and paddy fields was earlier under Silcoorie Tea Estate where the Tea workers used to grow rice crops, later some of the fields were sold to industrialists who had established bricks factories. In the beginning, the owners had to relocate workers from Bihar, Orissa, UP as they required trained brickmakers, gradually a  group of the villagers started working with them and learned the skills. The rest of the villagers are involved in fishing, growing crops, etc. As it is a flood-prone area, which is covered with floodwater during the rainy reason, the villagers frequently need to relocate themselves to nearby hill areas. They are able to earn their bread & butter only for six months working in the factories and the remaining six months they live on agriculture and fishing. Due to poverty and lack of infrastructure, they are able to bear the children's educational expenditure hardly up to 9th or 10th, hence, unemployment, education are their main concerns.