labour Provident fund feud Goa

Vadodara: The Gujarat Government

HUNDREDS of contract workers engaged by local bodies and water supply and sewerage boards in major cities and towns to clean underground sewers virtually walk into death traps. A large number of them die instantaneously after inhaling noxious fumes in the sewers. Others die a slow death from respiratory and neurological ailments.

Once covered with lush teak forests, Pati block in Badwani district of Madhya Pradesh now has a depressing lunar landscape of denuded hills, where only subsistence agriculture is possible. Most rural households there survive on wage labour and seasonal migration.

Press Trust Of India / New Delhi October 03, 2008, 0:59 IST

Agriculturists in Punjab seem to be struggling this season to hire migrant farm workers from Bihar and are believed to be using novel ways, like offering free cell phones, to lure them.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Various labour laws will apply to the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Kerala, says the policy approved by the Cabinet here on Monday.

Lakshmi Rajamani
Tiruchy

THE quarries in Thuvakudi that were once bustling with activity, with the clang of chisels reverberating the area, wear a desolate look, with the rocks standing testimony to the calm that has descended the area.
Work at the quarries started when the National Highway work was undertaken and BHEL came up. The need for labourers brought people from the other districts to settle here.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the top priority of the state government is to ensure well being of the common people, without which progress of the state is meaningless. The Chief Minister was addressing a function organised here a Lal Parade Ground today to present Star Awards to the promoted employees of the forest department and distribution of bonus to tendu leaf pluckers of Bhopal division.