Udupi: Brahmavar Sugar Factory Labourers Expresses Displeasure over State Budget

By Snehalatha, Udupi
Bellevision Media Network

Udupi, 14 Feb 2013: Brahmavar Sugar Factory Labourers Union expressed displeasure over the state budget that was tabled by CM Jagdish Shettar recently, despite CM Shettar’s assurances to resolve their issue at the earliest. The Union in a media release stated that the injustice has been meted to factory labourers and sugarcane growers in the district, without allocating funds for its revival.

 

Brahmavar Sugar Factory was shut down by labour department of state government on the orders of Board of Directors, in spite of several months of overdue salaries of labourers on April 16 ,2006. Two-hundred-twenty labourers and hundreds of labourers families including thousands of sugarcane growers dependent on Sugar Factory are driven to streets and live in pathetic condition since 6 years.

Despite High Court order issued during 2010, in order to disperse overdue wages of labourers in 6 installments; neither the Board of Directors nor the state government has taken any measures in this regard. Twenty-five to thirty sugar factory labourers have died owing to depression induced by economic crunch. The several other employees also face depression, despite this; the state government has no mercy to solve their issue, as stated by Union president S Bhaskar Shetty and chief secretary S Kumar Salikeri.