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Chennai: 70-year-old operates wooden raft across Adyar for Rs 2 to make ends meet
| Mar 07, 2019, 03:55:00 PM | TNN
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Every day 70-year-old Anna Thai sits by the river, into which the city’s sewage flows in, to operate a wooden raft. On it, she helps residents of Srinivasapuram cross the river and reach the other bank. More than 1,000 people from the slums take this Rs 2 raft ride across the river to earn a living. The raft has no oar, it is operated by a crafty innovation, a nylon rope is tied to both ends of the raft.
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