Another field hand and sugar factory worker who grew up in Sezela barracks is 74-year-old Chellan Chinappen. He retired in 1997 after working for Illovo Sugar for 44 years. He was part of a large family of four brothers and three sisters. His father, Chinnakanu, and mother, Muniamma, moved to Sezela barracks from the Nagoli sugar estate when he was about ten-years-old. He attended the local Sezela State Aided Indian School and started work as a field hand at the age of fifteen. "Life was very tough for all of us where we all had to live in compounds made of wood and iron and had to use communal toilets and water.