"The vision is established, and now they need a hard-nosed manager to manage the thing, to make the business ties, and do the selling, " he said.

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Father-of-three, Nagina Manjhi, tells me that things are now even worse than before: "We used to work in the fields or do other manual labour and somehow manage to make a living, " he explains.

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Who do they ride with and how did they manage to make their way into that powerhouse group?

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