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Contract workers stage protest against airport management

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October 17, 2011
Mangalore, October 17: Mangalore Airport Workers' Association started an indefinite protest outside the entrance to the airport, on Monday condemning sacking of contract workers without any reason. The protesters demanded the airport authorities to re-appoint the workers to their duty at the earliest.

Addressing the protesters Association Member Krishnananda said that several local people working in the airport on contract basis since many years.

Recently the contractor who took the responsibility of maintaining the old airport has removed several locals working at the airport.

He said that so far seven have lost their job. “The people who have been sacked belong to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and backward communities. Many are those who have got job because they had lost their land to the Airport expansion project,” claimed Krishnananda adding that though they had met the Mangalore Airport Director M R Vasudeva a couple of times and brought this issue to his notice he has not paid any heed to it.

“We felt that he was supporting the move of the contractor. When we pleaded with him to help the workers, he told us that he will be employing workers from Jharkhand and other states who are willing to work at much lesser salary,” alleged Krishnananda adding that the Mangalore Airport Director M R Vasudeva himself is against the local work force.

The Samiti said that the contract of the new airport too has been given to the same contractor and even here the conspiracy of cutting down on local workers is going on relentlessly.

The Samiti said that even if the contractor is changed, priority should be given to
the workers who have been working in the airport from so many years and measures should be taken to safeguard their interest.

Authorities should take steps to stop the harassment of workers by higher officials, dissolve the contract of the present contractor who has been meting out injustice at the workers and provide all facilities that the workers deserve to get legally.

Another member of the Mangalore Airport Workers Association said that the security of the airport is at stake as the workers are being recruited by the authorities without the very necessary Police Clearance Certificate (PCC).

Protesters shouted out slogans against the MangaloreAirport Director M R Vasudeva , the contractor and the system existing at the airport management level.

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January 9,2020

New Delhi, Jan 9: A total of 10,349 people involved in the farming sector, including 5,763 farmers or cultivators, committed suicide in 2018, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)'s report on 'Crime in India-2018' reveals.

The annual data was released around three months after the government released the NCRB report on 'Crime in India-2017'.

As per the latest data, of the 10,349 persons, who committed suicide in 2018, 4,586 were agricultural labourers.

The number of suicides in the farming sector in 2018 accounted for 7.7 per cent of the total suicide-victims (1,34,516) in the country, the NCRB data said.

Suicides in the country in 2018 rose to 1,34,516 from 1,29,887 in 2017.

The rate of suicides was up from 9.9 per cent in 2017 to 10.2 per cent in 2018. In 2017, a total of 10,655 farming sector-suicides were reported.

West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Goa, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Delhi, Lakshadweep and Puducherry reported zero suicides of farmers or cultivators and agricultural labourers during 2018, said the report.

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Kasaragod, May 30: Karnataka origin IPS officer D Shilpa has been appointed the new Superintendent of Police of Kasargod district.

The 35-year-old 2016-batch IPS officer is the first woman SP of Kasaragod. 

Her appointment follows the sudden transfer of P S Sabu who was hitherto holding the post. He has now been appointed as SP of Alappuzha.

Shilpa has earlier served as ASP of Kasargod. She was also ASP of Kannur during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Shilpa was one of the three IPS officers assigned to Kasaragod with IG Vijay Sakhare during the first phase of covid lockdown.

A native of HSR Layout in Bengaluru, Shilpa holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

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With today's addition, the total number of positive cases of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has increased to five in Mangaluru.

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