: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) Telangana State committee has urged the State government to come to the rescue of ginning mills, rice mills and other establishments in Jammikunta, Huzurabad and other areas of the erstwhile Karimnagar district.
CPI (M) State secretary T. Veerabhadram, who is on a marathon padayatra, addressed a letter to Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao highlighting the problems faced by workers in these areas.
He lamented that steps for improving the conditions of the workers at grassroots level were not taken throwing the fate of the employees in ginning mills and rice mills into jeopardy.
He said his padayatra had completed 2,000 km covering 17 districts and people were representing problems they were facing due to the government’s indifferent attitude towards them.
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“There is no difference between the previous governments and the present dispensation going by the complaints received from the people,” he said.
Mr. Veerabhadram was particularly critical of the government’s claims on ushering in an attractive industrial policy claiming that the ginning mills spread in several areas of Karimnagar district were in fact on the verge of closure.
The government should focus on taking decisions that could ensure their revival failing which over 4,000 people, who were either directly or indirectly dependent on them, would lose their jobs. The CPI(M) State secretary suggested that the government set up a spinning mill supplementing the needs of the ginning mills. This would ensure that the workers in ginning mills secured works promptly besides providing job opportunities to the unemployed.
