Elections 2019: Sant Kabir Nagar's Brass Industry Fading into Oblivion
With GST, demonetisation and rising raw material costs, jobs are scarce in Bakhira's famed, but now crisis-ridden brass industry.
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Bakhira of UP’s Sant Kabir Nagar – also known as Peetal Nagari – is on the Verge of Shutdown. With GST, demonetisation and rising raw material costs, jobs are scarce in Bakhira's famed, but now crisis-ridden brass industry. As a result, 50% of the people in the area, who were dependent on this industry, have migrated to Daman and Diu, and are now working in plastic units.

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