This caste council acts as an instrument of social control, by punishing those who contravene community norms.
The Mochi of Haryana claim to have migrated from Rajasthan, and are found mainly in the cantonment city of Ambala.
A large number are landless agricultural labourers, with a minority now taking up other professions.
[1] The Mochi in rural Punjab in Pakistan is still dependent on the local landlord, who acts as patron.
The Mochi is thus entirely dependent on the locally dominant caste, and are paid from each cash crop at the end of the harvesting season according to a system called seypi.