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A construction site with workers sifting and carrying sand near a half-built red-brick building with a corrugated roof. A woman in a yellow saree with a blue blouse balances a metal basin of sand on her head. Beside her, a man in a white shirt and purple shorts holds another basin. A bent-over worker in a white shirt and dark shorts shovels sand into a metal pan, and a man in an orange t-shirt and beige shorts stands by with a white head cloth. Stacked bricks, mounds of red soil and gravel surround them, with a building in the background. No a person candidate is visible.

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