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`Exempt kilns from mixing fly ash with mud'

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, SEPT. 12. The Southern Regional Brick Manufacturers' Association has sought exemption from compulsory mixing of fly ash with mud for making bricks.

In a memorandum to the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, the president, M.A. Yasin Mohammed, said the Union Ministry for Environment made it compulsory to blend fly ash with mud, up to 25 per cent, though experiments proved it "unviable." It posed a threat to the health of workers, and even people did not prefer fly ash-blended bricks.

He said the brick kiln owners were accused of engaging child labourers just because the wards of workers were staying with them in the kiln. "We are forced to pay huge penalty." Besides, "vested interests" were making a false charge that the kiln owners were employing bonded labourers.

Claiming that the industry could not find permanent workers but provided alternative employment to jobless farmers, he said it could not follow the labour laws in letter and spirit. Hence, the Government should exempt the brick kiln owners from the stringent laws.

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