The study is undertaken on the struggling life of the neo-milk-men. They are from a different caste origin. The dairy job is found to be a source of self-employment to the educated unemployed youths. As a result of the adoption of the job, these neo-milk-men improved their living and economic standards. Thus the green revolution has set the change in traditional occupational pattern.
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