Bamboo Mats are one of the largely used items in Rural
Assam taking in to consideration its multifarious use like temporary fencing,
partition between room, sitting, covering, temporary urinal and latrine etc. Because
of its affordable cost this item is abundantly used in north eastern states
of the Country. These items are also supplied to different parts of the
Country in large scale.
It any body goes to Kayakuchi (Kuriha) village of
Pakabetbari Dev. Block under Barpeta District he will be immensely happy to
see hundreds of workers, cutting Bamboo to different size, preparing bamboo
blades and their smoothly preparing the bamboo mats of different size, different
designs.
Although the work had been going on since a long time, and
the return is very high, the actual benefits were grabbed by the financers, who
paid very poorly to the mat makers, hardly sufficient to earn two square
meals for the family. The workers had to sink themselves under personal loans
from the private lenders and the financers in the mat making industry.
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