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At this stage, grinders become weak, can't walk, suffer extreme weight loss, struggle to breathe, experience chest pain, followed by a slow, painful death.
People's Training and Research Centre (PTRC) and Agate Worker Demands
PTRC's director, Jagdish Patel, lists them:
-- cover agate and gemstone industry workers under India's Factories Act;
-- make traders legally accountable for their workers;
-- let them organize and be able to form large cooperatives to negotiate wages, benefits, and working conditions, including health and safety protections;
-- mandate India's National Institute of Occupational Health develop safe grinding methods;
-- provide medical care, compensation and family stipends for silicosis victims; and
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