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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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
