B’NGIR
DM WANTS MIGRANTS BACK BY APR 5
Monday, 24 March 2014
| PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
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Writes to AP, TN,
Karnataka counterparts for help
District Collector M Muthukumar
on Sunday directed all the migrant labour contractors of the district to bring
back migrant labourers employed outside the State before April 5 so that they
can exercise their franchise in the April 10 Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.
Muthukumar held a
meeting for the purpose in which 36 such contractors having valid licence
attended. “I have told them to bring back migrant labourers from the brick
kilns of Andhra Pradesh and other States before April 5 so that they can cast
their votes,” Muthukumar said.
He said the
contractors have been asked to bring labourers to the rail stations at
Kantabanji and Titiligarh from where the district administration would make
arrangements to take them to their respective villagers.He
further informed that he has already written letters to his counterparts of
Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in this regard.
On the other hand, the
direction has put the contractors in a very piquant situation. “We don’t know
how the brick kiln owners would respond to it as labourers are on contracts
involving money,” said some contractors.
Elaborating their
possible problems further, they said if the employers agree their proposal then
how the financial issues would be settled and who would guarantee us that the
same labourers would return to their respective brick kilns after the voting.
Interestingly, the
Balangir District Labour Office record shows that there are 139 labour
contractors in the district while 276 licences have been issued. Many of the
contractors have not submitted their detailed list of migrant labourers before
the office even if there is a provision that the list must be submitted within
15days of their migration.
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