Key Points
Today, he has transcended the tag of a Hindi migrant worker and become an entrepreneur-owner of a cloth printing unit himself in the Tamil Nadu textile export hub..
Hundreds of migrant workers have become entrepreneurs over the last decade..
After 15 years in Tiruppur, of which seven were spent as a worker in various textile units, he now employs 10 fellow Biharis in his own cloth printing business...
For decades, migrants from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha have flocked here to work as migrant workers of production units owned by Tamils..
Over the past decade, roughly 10 per cent of migrant workers have become business owners, though most are still in their initial phase, according to M Sivakumar, state president of the All-India Organisation for Small & Micro Industries...
