Jute mill workers forced to beg on streets demand govt takeover
- | Saturday | 16th February, 2019
Visakhapatnam: Yerusu Appala Narsaiah, 57, begs at the the city’s busy Dwaraka Nagar Junction, recollects about the time when he had a full-time job at the Chitavalsah Jute Mills Pvt Ltd at Chittivalasa village of Tagarapuvalasa mandal in the district. Narasaiah’s life changed back in April 2009 when the mill management announced a “lockout” at the jute mill Like Narsaiah nearly 4,500 former workers of the jute plant are forced to work as daily wage labourers in various companies, said J Ramana, another colleague of Narsaiah.All these men participated in the 30-km long march (padayatra) from Tagarapuvalasa to the city on Friday as part of their demonstration against the government’s apathy towards their demands, which primarily include reopeningthe mill and clearance of pending salaries of Rs 240 crores, said Ch Narasinga Rao, the AP state president of Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU).Narasinga Rao said that the only solution to the plight of all these jute mill workers is that that the government take over the mill at the earliest.
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