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Title: Kali C
Age: 43
Occupation: snake catcher
Lives with: his spouse, Alamelu (38), a canine, 4 rabbits and a rescue mongoose. Their two daughters, Sindhu (22) and Sandya (21), stick with them throughout holidays.
Lives in: an 11sq-metre (120sq-foot) single-room home in Chengalpettu, Tamil Nadu, about 50km (31 miles) from Chennai in jap India. The home has kitchen provides saved on one aspect and a dwelling space that doubles as a bed room at evening on the opposite. They’ve an impartial toilet unit and a small visitor room behind their home; their daughters keep right here throughout visits.
Month-to-month family earnings: As a contract worker with the Irula Snake Catchers Industrial Cooperative Society, Kali earns a fundamental wage of 19,000 rupees ($228.72) per thirty days for seven months of the yr.
Along with this, he receives about 4,800 rupees ($57.78) per thirty days in fee funds (paid per snake caught) from the cooperative society, which extracts venom from the snakes.
Throughout the snake breeding season (April to August) when the federal government bans snake catching, Kali takes on odd jobs in farming and fishing, incomes from 7,000 rupees to 10,000 rupees ($84.27 to $120.38) per thirty days. Kali’s spouse chips in by weaving baskets for extra earnings of some hundred rupees.
Complete bills for the month: 22,800 rupees ($274). After making mortgage repayments of 8,700 rupees ($104.73), Kali spends about 14,100 rupees ($169.73) on his household’s dwelling prices.