Summary:
Addressing the protesters, Balakrishna Shetty, secretary of the district unit of the association, said since the sand problem had escalated, building and construction workers were jobless. The pension of construction and building workers should be increased and they should be provided with Provident Fund and ESI facilities. With the result, besides the construction and building workers, those removing sand, those loading it to trucks, and truck drivers, were all without work. more-inMembers of the Udupi District Building and Construction Workers’ Association affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), staged a dharna outside the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here on Thursday demanding a solution to the problem of sand shortage in the district. The government should provide sites to the poor without sites and give them subsidised loans to construction houses, Mr.
Shetty said..