Ground Report | LPG Crisis Hits Kanpur’s Women Hosiery Workers

Name: Ground Report | LPG Crisis Hits Kanpur’s Women Hosiery Workers - The Wire
Uploaded: 2026-05-11T15:16:42+05:30
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Description: To understand how this crisis has reached from factories to the pockets of women workers, watch Akanksha Kumar’s ground report.

To understand how this crisis has reached from factories to the pockets of women workers, watch Akanksha Kumar’s ground report.

Akanksha Kumar

To understand how this crisis has reached from factories to the pockets of women workers, watch Akanksha Kumar’s ground report.

The impact of rising yarn prices and increasing packaging material costs due to the West Asia war is now being felt by women workers as well. In Kanpur’s Fazalganj, The Wire spoke to women workers associated with the hosiery sector and small garment unit operators, who shared how the LPG crisis is affecting their livelihoods and making life more difficult. To understand how this crisis has reached from factories to the pockets of women workers, watch Akanksha Kumar’s ground report.

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