Mangaluru: CREDAI writes to DK DC urging him to stop migrant workers from leaving city
Mangaluru: Pushparaj Jain, the President of CREDAI Mangalore, on Tuesday wrote to the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada District seeking assistance in comforting the migrant laborers who he said were leaving the city fearing lockdown amidst the second wave of COVID-19.
In a letter written to the Deputy Commissioner, Pushparaj stated the second wave of the deadly virus has “terrorized people” due to which migrant workers are mulling to leave the city. He urged the district administration to make efforts to retain them and comfort them so that the construction industry doesn’t face a shortage of workers in the coming months.
“The 2nd wave of COVID 19 has terrorized people alike due to which Migrant labors working in the construction sites have started packing their bags to their home towns fearing lockdown in Mangalore. Unless an effort is made by the District Administration and concerned authorities to retain the migrant labors, the city might get dried up causing acute shortage of labors in coming months” he wrote in the letter.
“The above situation will put particularly the construction industry under enormous pressure as projects are time-bound and any delay in completion of projects will attract huge penalties and legal tussle.
“The Project sites are ready to provide not only required medical assistance, food, shelter but also work for the migrant labors till the situation eases” the letter further stated.
The District Administration has to comfort the migrant laborers and need be release an advertisement highlighting the above to fill in confidence, he urged the district administration.
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MP cruise boat tragedy: Search ops expanded to trace four missing passengers
Jabalpur (PTI): Army divers and disaster response teams on Saturday expanded their search at Bargi Dam in Madhya Pradesh to locate a man and three children still missing after the cruise boat tragedy that claimed nine lives two days ago, officials said.
With 28 of the 41 identified passengers onboard the ill-fated cruise boat rescued safely, police are preparing to register an FIR in connection with the accident that occurred at the reservoir in Jabalpur district on Thursday evening, they said.
The search radius has been expanded to 5 km in the backwaters of the Bargi Dam, located downstream of the Narmada River, area sub-divisional officer of police (SDOP) Anjul Ayank Mishra told PTI.
Nine people drowned in the incident, while 28 were rescued, and efforts are ongoing to trace the missing persons, he said.
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According to the police, more than 200 rescuers, including around 20 Army divers airlifted from Agra, began the search operation at 5 am on Saturday to trace Kamraj, an employee of the Ordnance Factory in Khamaria, his son Tamil (5), Vijay Soni (6) and Mayuram (5).
Mishra said that an inquest case has been registered and the post-mortem of nine deceased persons has been completed.
"Our priority is to search for the missing persons. We will soon register an FIR," he said.
Investigators have said that CCTV footage near the boarding point showed 43 people heading towards the ill-fated boat, and the names of 41 persons, who boarded the vessel, have been ascertained so far.
Collector Raghvendra Singh confirmed that a search is underway for four missing persons.
The rescue operation, being carried out by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and local divers, was briefly affected around 9 am due to strong winds.
The state government on Friday ordered a probe into the incident and dismissed three crew members after survivors alleged negligence and safety lapses, including failure to provide life jackets.
The government also banned the operation of similar vessels in the state.
The boat, operated by the state tourism department, sank during a sudden storm around 6 pm on Thursday, and the wreckage was retrieved from the dam water on Friday, after the rescuers confirmed that there were no more bodies inside.
Eyewitnesses have said that strong winds made the water choppy, prompting passengers to raise an alarm and ask the crew to steer the vessel towards the riverbank.
A survivor alleged negligence by the crew and described a last-minute scramble for life jackets.
