A construction site with a worker on the left wearing a red headband, checked shirt and checked lungi, spraying water from a hose onto a patch of ground. Two tall steel posts stand upright in the foreground, and concrete slabs and piles of gravel and rubble lie around the dirt. Dry grass, trees and a palm are behind, with power lines overhead. - Nithyanandapedia

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A construction site with a worker on the left wearing a red headband, checked shirt and checked lungi, spraying water from a hose onto a patch of ground. Two tall steel posts stand upright in the foreground, and concrete slabs and piles of gravel and rubble lie around the dirt. Dry grass, trees and a palm are behind, with power lines overhead.

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