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New insurance pays Indian workers to stay home when heat turns deadly

New insurance pays Indian workers to stay home when heat turns deadly

Clothes seller Lata Solanki used to face a devastating choice when India’s summer heat hit dangerous levels: risk her health going door-to-door for sales, or lose her income? But now the 42-year-old is part of an insurance scheme that pays out when temperatures hit a threshold, so she can stay home

ORIGINAL SOURCE →via South China Morning Post
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