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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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
