 The usage of match is an age-old practice. In the era of handheld lightness, many have forgotten it, especially in the urban area. But many in the rural area are still using it and the matchbox is a livelihood for thousands of people. Most of the workers in the industry are women and they are paid very less. In terms of production, the machines have displaced thousands of workers from this small-scale industry. According to various reports, the industry earns up to 2000 crore and employs more than 2 lakh people. More than 75% of India's matchbox production takes place in Sivakasi, Viridhinagar district of Tamil Nadu. According to the entrepreneurs, the industry has already collapsed due to the government's pro-corporate economic policies, demonetization and inappropriate implementation of GST for the past years. Now, the industry faces are set back again by the blanket lockdown in the name of pandemic. To understand the issues, Newsclick reached out to the people working in the matchbox production units in Sivakasi. There is no termination, no work, there is no termination. There is no time to talk, there is no time to get a job. Everyone is a matchbox worker, from the government, vegetables, onions, tomatoes, everything is a matchbox worker. Therefore, the matchbox worker is a little less. The work can be done. I was a father at 50. We would use the steel, we would put the pans, we would put the stove on, we would put the stove on, we would put the stove on. The machine was turned off, it was left in the oven. It was left in the oven, it was left in the oven. Now, it is just starting to turn into a little bit of a mess. We are going to do something for the sake of equality, What are we going to do for the future? If there are a lot of people, it will be a bit of a mess. There will be no mess for one person. In 1922, we went to Kalkathala and brought an old man here, and he was buried here in Thipatti. The colour was red. The whole of this is Kandahabhumi. That is one of the major issues of this area. Thattapavettapam is a place where the Thipatti and Pattasam are prepared. Because in Thipatti, there are a lot of women's burials. The reason is that in the morning, we can quickly make 10 burials. Then we can go home and do work. We can make burials again. Because of the enough income for them, women's burials are being made. The burials will be removed from the burials and the burials will be removed from the burials. They will be affected. That is why ESI, Coverage is more important. ESI has helped to get the funds, the corporations, to get the businessmen. It has helped to get the major businessmen. Today, we are saying that we need to change the way of giving corporations. First of all, in Thipatti, there was a manual work. After the manual work, after the collaboration, the machine came from abroad. When the machine was brought, a thousand people were in the place without their needs. They brought a machine to the airport. The machine has become more and more. Today, 60% of the machine is done. 40% of the machine is done manually. After 2-3 years, it will be totally mechanized. Next, there will be a small cottage industry. Today, a big industry has developed. People from all over the world, like Sinha Chenna, like the first generation, like the first generation, they went missing today. They went missing today. They went missing. Today, they can go to a big corporate. Today, there is an ITC in the field called corporate. If there is an ITC, they take their products to any village and sell them in the ITC. They sell their cigarettes in the ITC. This is the case in Thipatti. Even if we put a machine, the first generation is not here. If they can take the ITC equally, it is not possible. They have the same volume. Their ITC's protection is major in India. They have the same tax. After GST, a normal 100 bundle, about 30,000, 40,000 rupees, they have the same tax. ITC will make a business of 500 crores, 600 crores, 1000 crores. But, if there is a small company, 30,000, 40,000 rupees, even if they do it for a month, they will do it for 4-5 lakhs. Now, ITC and they have become equal in GST. When there is no such thing, there are chances that they will lose their hands. When the first lockdown is over 1 month, when the lockdown is over, one of our suppliers stopped the credit. Because he has no fund rotation. If he comes to a place, he has to pay for it. We have no funds rotation. If we get a share, we have to pay for it. After the first lockdown, if we pay for it, we will get it. The lockdown has pushed us to a soon-lost level. They have suffered a lot in those times. What they did in the bank is, they gave us the money, they gave us the excess loan for the corona period, they gave us the interest, they said they will not get any charges, they did not have to do the documentation. They announced the central government. They declared that they would make them do it. The finance minister, Nirmala Sitaaraman, declared that they would do it. But they did not have the means to do it. They did the documentation in all banks. They had to spend the money for the documentation. Because they gave it, we did not feel the need for it. Because we did not get the money, we were a little relieved. But we did not get the money. Because we are not responsible for it. We are not responsible for the corona period. Because it is the second part of the process, we are going to suffer. Our sufferings are still there. There is a rotation called Pudukkalvangal in our hands. The corona has stopped. It is a very big question for those who are in the industry like us. You do not have to pay the current bill for 2 months, you do not have to pay for 3 months. They announced it to the people. In the last lockdown period, you all had to pay the current bill. Because for the unemissionsed industry, for the unemissionsed platform, they had to pay the current bill for the first month. In the same way, we had to pay the current bill. So, we did not pay the current bill. We did not get any help from Manila, from any government. We did not get any help from the other government. We were not satisfied that we did not get any help from the other government.