The rural women in hill villages are the worst hit by liquor consuming habits of their husbands, partial unemployment due to shrinking agriculture and of social and family neglect despite working hard for 16 hours a day to keep their family going. This impression has been drawn by the women contestants in the Assembly elections this year on the ticket of various political parties or as Independent. [more]
Hill women suffer due to liquor-addict husbands
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