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| Local stages protest, three injured | | |  Early Times Report
RAMBAN, May 25: Thousands of locals unemployed youth staged a protest demonstration against a private construction company, engaged in the construction of four laning National Highway project, at Chanderkote today.
The protestors blocked the National Highway for hours in support of their demand.
They accused the company for not recruiting the locals in their ongoing work at Chanderkote area of district Ramban.
The demonstration was held under the leadership of Advocate Sager Lone while scores of unemployed degree and diploma holders and educated unemployed youths participated in the protest.
"This is high time the district administration should come forward for the support of general public", Lone said and asked the concerned construction company to recruit locals in their projects. He further alleged that the officers sitting at the helm of affairs were taking people of Ramban for granted by recruiting outsiders.
He warned the administration as well as the GAMMON Company authorities that if their demands are not fulfilled they will come on road and block main road.
"By taking their land, the company has made hundreds of youth unemployed and now it is the responsibility of the company to provide them employment" he said.
They raised slogans against the officers of GAMMON Engineer and Contractors Pvt Ltd and demanded jobs for skilled and unskilled youth of Chanderkote. They also alleged that the connivance of the concerned officers of the district administration for ignoring the local youth in the recruitment in the firm.
Meanwhile a local contractor crushed some of the protestors with his vehicles in which three people got injured out of which one was referred to Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu after giving first aid at District Hospital Ramban.
Later, the protest came to end after the intervention of Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ramban Sanjay Parihar and Tehsikdar Ramnan Promod Kumar who assured that the culprit will be punished.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ramban Mohan Lal said that the accused person has been arrested and will email punished according to the law. |
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