Ailments of Women Beedi Labourers in Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu

This paper major aim to address the ailments of women beedi labourers in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu state. Women empowerment is a smart key to develop their any nation according to women skill and capacity. Now-a-days the plenty of people are living under below poverty line because they are not getting a minimum employment facilities in their life. Further, majority of the people are depends on indoor jobs such as match box works, candle works, and beedi works, especially, women people are dominated and working under indoor jobs than that of men. Beedi works is one of the informal or unorganized sectors in India. It plays a vital role for improving economic development like the beedi work provides employment facilities, improving their living conditions, reduce poverty also. Health is one of the major factors and this present research directly to measure the ill health effects of beedi rolling workers. The measurement of ill health effects in terms of the workers affected by headache, stomach pain, eye problems, skin pain and others. In view these circulstances, the research is based on ailments of beedi workers in Tamil Nadu. The main aim of this paper is to find out the ailments of women beedi workers among well-off households and poorer households in the study region. By this study has used primary data survey method and totally 51 sample respondents are taken from two villages like Alangulam and Sankarnagar in selected Alangulam block of selected district. As a result found that, the women of poorer household respondents have mostly affected such health problems like head ache, eye problems and skin problems as compared to that of women well-off household in selected area.