Case Study – Heera Shrestha

Heera Shrestha

Heera Shrestha from Okhaldunga is a Ring frame trainee at Reliance spinning mills explains that she got to learn about the opportunity inside factory from her relatives. Shrestha made a choice to help her family in agriculture and be a dropout from studies. The interviewees said that working conditions are impressive in terms of health and safety concerns, accommodation for women, kitchen facilities, water, electricity facilities provide me with a happy space here. Although the practical session was reasonably difficult initially, I am getting better with practice. Shrestha’s husband is currently working in a gas plant; she says he is flexible with working hours and to have a working spouse as he believes it can lead to better productivity. She mentions she has a seven-year-old daughter to raise together.  She doesn’t want her daughter, because of poor economic conditions, to go through the same suffering and hardships that she went through. She says “chorimancheaafnokhutta ma ubhinasarainaijaruri cha”.