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Industrial workers having a tough time: C.S. Sujata

By Our Staff Reporter

ALAPPUZHA, MARCH 6. The Alappuzha district panchayat president and LDF candidate from the Mavelikkara constituency in the coming Lok Sabha elections, C. S. Sujata, has said that the industrial workers of the constituency were going through a period of crisis as many industries there were on the verge of closure.

Speaking at a meet-the-press programme organised at the Alappuzha Press Club, Ms. Sujata said the Prabhuram Mills, Chengannur, the Switch Gear factory, Mannar, the Traco Cables, Thiruvalla and the Travancore Sugar Mills, Thiruvalla, were some of the industries which had not paid salary to their workers for the last few months. She said the workers had complained that they were in utter poverty and the authorities had not done anything to solve the crisis.

Ms Sujata said that the former MP, Ramesh Chennithala, had not taken the initiative to save the industrial workers. Ms. Sujata said the cashew industry which provides jobs to a large number of workers was also going through a dull phase.

`Apart from implementing minor development works using the local area development fund, Mr. Chennithala had not implemented any major development project in the constituency,' Ms Sujata noted. She pointed out that people in a large part of the constituency were experiencing shortage of drinking water. People of many areas in Thiruvalla, Kallooppara and Chengannur constituencies had to walk long distances to collect water, noted Ms Sujata.

She said the uncontrolled mining of river sand had affected the eco-system of the region. ``A mafia is controlling the mining activities and the authorities are hand-in-glove with them,'' noted Ms Sujata.

The agriculture research centre at Kayamkulam in the constituency was facing the threat of closure, she said.

She said as the Alappuzha district panchayat president she had taken the initiative to bring barren paddy fields in Alappuzha district under cultivation. The district panchayat had also implemented drinking water schemes in many places, she said. Ms Sujata was confident that she would win.

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