BRO workers to leave for Ladakh

Ranchi: Three days after Jharkhand government gave its nod to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to recruit around 12,000 road construction workers from the state, the Dumka district administration on Tuesday announced that the first special train ferrying 1,500 workers will depart for Ladakh on June 12.
Dumka deputy commissioner Rajeshwari B announced on Twitter: “The first train carrying 1,500 migrants from Santhal Pargana will leave on June 12. Meeting held with SP, SDO and other officials to ensure that the whole process is smooth and hassle-free especially for our worker brothers.” The DC also took stock of Dumka railway station premises.
In another Tweet, the DC said block development officers have been made nodal officers for registration of willing and unskilled workers. Government sources in Ranchi said top officials of the BRO will be present in Dumka to flag off the train. Chief minister Hemant Soren is also expected to be present.
On Monday, Jharkhand gave its nod after BRO gave an undertaking to weed out middlemen, revise wages and provide health cover to the state’s construction workers working for road and bridge construction projects in Leh and Ladakh. The BRO also agreed to the government’s proposition that it will recruit in Jharkhand through the district administration’s facilitation.
Meanwhile, 81 migrant workmen returned from Ladakh via New Delhi by air on Tuesday. A batch of 21 workers arrived in an AirAsia flight around 6:40pm while the next batch touched down in an Indigo flight an hour later at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda International Airport. Earlier in the day, 180 migrants were also flown back from Mumbai.