Construction cos request for workers from H’bag: DC

Hazaribag: District authorities on Tuesday said they are working on setting up a proper mechanism for workers to get fair treatment after getting requests from many construction companies based in Telangana, Hyderabad and other places to send back Hazaribag labourers, who had returned during the lockdown.
Deputy commissioner Bhuvanesh Pratap Singh said, “Most of the requests sought workers from the Bishungarh block for laying of transmission lines, building roads and other jobs. It is because people from this block have good expertise in such works.”
He added, “We are trying to work out a proper mechanism to ensure fair wages and other facilities before sending people from our district. ”
Notably, the state government had signed an MoU with Border Roads Organisation recently before agreeing to send workers from Santhal Pargana division to build roads along the China borders.
Singh said, “After the mechanism is set, we will not stop those who want to leave but at the same time, we are also providing jobs to the workers who have returned.”
An official survey has found that 20,000 migrants have returned during the lockdown from different places. Hazaribag is one of the three districts in the state which has been chosen for the PM Garib Kalyan Rozgar Yojana and the administration has given jobs cards under MNREGA to 5,000 people so far.
“We are trying to absorb the rest after completion of their quarantine period,” Singh said, adding that many job card holders are also busy with their agricultural work.