 VIJAYPUR, FEB 14: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Manjit Singh today appealed the Jammu Kashmir Government to accept the demands of the protesting truck drivers in Samba, who are being ignored in allotting work by the industrialists.
The Government had allowed to Industrial unites with the hope that it would provide job opportunity to the locals but the same was ignored and the outsiders were appointed on the management positions, while the people of the State are taken on work from contractors, Manjit Singh alleged. Singh was addressing a deputation of truck drivers and operators in Vijaypur. He said that these industries have spread pollution in the areas of Samba and have allegedly made the human life difficult.
"The waters is polluted, fields grow nothing, and the people have been facing health related problems due to the pollution which is being allegedly spread by the industrial units in Samba," he alleged. The government should order investigation to ascertain as why these units do not fulfill the required norms, he demanded, while adding these industries take rebate from the government in electricity and other things for running their industrial units but they did not fulfill the commitments. "They employ only outsiders on the top positions in the industry and the locals are not given jobs," he said, adding that even if they (locals) are given job, they are employed for 'labour' work that too through the contractors. "The government should order a probe into the nexus between the politicians, administration, and the industrialists," he added. Referring to the trucks and drivers arrested by the police recently, Manjit Singh said, the police should immediately release the 62 drivers who have been arrested. Some of them were released on bail recently and rests are still being the bars.
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