Dire conditions still prevail in ship breaking yards

Researchers reveal poor occupational health and safety provisions, according to Patrizia Heidegger, of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform

The working and living conditions at the shipbreaking yards of Alang, India, remain alarmingly poor, argues a new study published in the Economic & Political Weekly, a well-known Indian Social Science journal. The research was commissioned and financed by the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) and was co-ordinated by Dr Geetanjoy Sahu from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).