Life at the brick field
Life at the brick field
For over kilometers in every direction, the whole place is covered with red dust & grey brown tone. the season campaigners come together to the city to survive e every year. Habitation on either side with river Shitalakshya in the middle pollutes the whole environment by the black smokes of the chimneys of the brick field at Narshingpur & Fatullah.. Every day, work starts at six in the morning, carting head-loads of eight bricks from the furnace to the supply pile. Each trip back and forth is allotted a little over a minute. For a twelve-hour workday, during which an average worker carries about two & half thousand bricks, he earns Tk. 150 per thousands. Life at the brick field’s tough like red bricks. The workers use to live with seven days a week. & no work no pay system. It is a place that guaranteed to make you feel the surviving.