--State provides Rs 4 lakh aid to
each victim
NUAPADA/BHUBANESWAR: Finally, the
Nuapada police on Wednesday arrested four persons from Kotamal village under Khariar
block in Nuapada district suspecting their involvement in chopping off the
right hands of the migrant labourers of Kalahandi district.
The four persons were identified
as Arta Dundi, Parabeswar Dundi, Bana Majhi and Baikuntha Rout of Kotamal village
under the Khariar police station. “After nabbing the culprits from their
villager, we handed them over to the Kalahandi police for further investigation,”
said Khariar IIC Sibaram Sahoo.
Meanwhile, the District Press
Club of Nuapada conducted a meeting on Wednesday to discuss about the issue of
torture and exploitation of migrant labourers in the district. The members of
the Press Club submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister of India and the Chief
Minister of Odisha to formulate a concrete policy on the serious issue. They
also sent letters to MLAs and MPs of the State requesting them to think seriously
about a national policy on the migration and migrant labourers.
After two days of the incident, the
State Government on Wednesday announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh each for
the two migrant labourers. Labour and Employment Minister Bijayshree Routray
said the State Government would also bear the entire cost towards the treatment
of these two labourers, who are presently undergoing treatment at the district
headquarters hospital at Bhawanipatna.
Expressing grave concern over the
issue, Routray said the Government would soon amend the relevant act to provide
greater protection to migrant labourers and to take strong action against unscrupulous
labour contractors.
Notably, a
contractor and his henchmen had chopped off the right hands of two migrant labourers- Dialu Nial of Pipalguda and
Nilambar Dhangda Majhi of Nuaguda villages under Jaipatna police station in Kalahandi
district on Sunday night when they expressed their inability to go outside the
State for working there.
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