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The collection and transportation of stone from natural source is a highly labour intensive job. The labourers involved in stone collection, however, do not enjoy the deserved remuneration for their labour and remain the victim of extreme poverty resulting from exploitation and deprivation by the businessmen or middlemen and lack of awareness, education and organization. The objectives of this research are to investigate the present socio-economic conditions of the stone labourers of Jaflong area in Sylhet district and also to review and analyse the causes of their poverty in order to make a participatory search for solutions to overcome and redress them. The stone labourers, in the process of reflecting on their own situation, with the facilitation of an external animator, will organize themselves to raise their awareness regarding basic rights, gender, labour rights, savings and other needs to uplift their position in the occupation by enforcing better conditions of production, transportation and marketing through collective effort. This is basically a capacity-building research but its findings are expected to be useful for concerned government and non-government organizations that would be informed about them through seminar, mass media and possible forms of publications.
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