TORTURED B’NGIR WORKER GOES MISSING AT AP KILN
Wednesday, 29 January
2014 | SUDHIR MISHRA | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
Even as
the Government is making tall claims of providing job works at door steps to
the poor people through various job schemes like MGNREGS, yet there is no end
to distress migration from the poverty-struck district here and the migrant
workers facing torture at the hands of their employers.
According to reports,
Maniram Parabhue along with family members including his wife Mithila Parabhue
and three children of Badtukula village under Tureikela police station had
moved to Andhra Pradesh after Nabanna last year (September) to work in brick
kilns. They reached Kapalapalli village through broker Arjun Behera of
Kantabanji.
After working for a few
days, Maniraam fell sick. So, he began to work less. This enraged his employer,
who assaulted him and left him injured. When Maniram sought treatment, he was
assaulted again.
Similar was the fate of
many fellow workers.
However, one Jalandhar
Parabhue managed to inform about their plight to the labour officials in
Balangir. With the help of the local administration of AP, about five were
rescued by the Balangir administration and the labour officials. But Maniraam
was still to be rescued as he went missing.
“My husband Maniraam is
missing till today. I suspect he has been killed there and appeal to the
district administration to look into the matter,” said a sobbing Mithila.
Meanwhile, social workers
have demanded immediate steps by the district administration to trace out
missing Maniraam and appropriate rehabilitation to his family.
Interestingly, district
Collector M Muthukumar in his Republic Day address had asserted that the
district administration was very serious about checking distress migration from
the district. The latest case has thrown a challenge to the district
administration.
When contacted, SP Ravi
Prakash said, “I’ll look into the incident.”
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