Industrial activities will pick up soon: Shettar

Hubballi: Industries will start functioning like before and all migrated labourers will also come back to the state and work in next couple of months, said large and medium industries minister Jagadish Shettar.
Shettar, who is also the district in-charge minister, said on Monday that after the relaxation of the lockdown, most industries have resumed work. “Now, 80% of the industries are working. As most of the skilled labourers migrated to their respective states, there is a dearth of skilled labourers now. We are hopeful that they will come back, and industrial activities can pick up pace soon,” he said.
“People should maintain social distancing, wear masks, use sanitisers and follow other precautions to help the government contain the spread of coronavirus,” he said.
All wards in Hubballi-Dharwad will be brought under the 24X7 drinking water network in next 18 months and Rs 1,200 crore has been sanctioned for it, he added.
MLAs Shankar Patil Munenkoppa and Amrut Desai, MLCs Pradeep Shettar and SV Sankanur, BJP leaders Mahesh Tenginkai, Lingaraj Patil, Nagesh Kalaburgi, Santosh Chavan and others were present.