Labour Day 2021: Honouring workers & their contribution

As the World celebrates International Workers Day today, we bring you a few pictures from the daily life of the labourers from different fields who work hard to make ends meet.(Image Credit: AFP)

Labourers transport goods loaded on a handcart at a railway station in New Delhi.

A skilled labourer makes a traditional charcoal iron at his shop in Shivajinagar in Bangalore.

Labourers extract sand from the riverbed of the Beki River in Barpeta, North Assam.

Labourers push a pontoon buoy in the banks of the Ganges River in Allahabad.

Labourers connect pipes to collect water from a special train at a railway station in Chennai.

A labourer cleaning a solar panel used in deriving saline water, in the Little Rann of Kutch.

An Indian labourer carries a sack of plastic bottles on his head near one of the largest disposal sites in north-east India.

A labourer packing salt at a salt factory in Kharaghoda village near the Little Rann of Kutch.

A farm labourer burns paddy stubble in a field on the outskirts of Jalandhar in Punjab state.