Muzaffarnagar industry limping back to normalcy; insecurity among workforce
Updated: Sep 17, 2013 04:29:34pm
From Swati Dayal
Muzaffarnagar, Sept 17 (KNN) Trade activities have resumed in the city but industry has not been able to resume full production since the workforce drawn from the near about villages want to leave before the sunset and are not prepared to work at night , as the city is trying to come to grip with deadly riots which claimed 44 lives.
“While people, especially those living on daily wages are back to work, workers are not willing to do night shift as there is a sense of insecurity,” Managing Director of the city-based Chakradhar Chemicals Private Ltd Neeraj Kedia said, estimating the total loss of Rs 1,000 crore to the trade and industry from the riots which broke out from August 27 and engulfed Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts for over a week.
According to Director of Dayachand Engineering Industries, Navin Jain, some labourers are turning up but they are not confident enough; they want to leave early by 4-5 PM.
As the riots had spread into the rural areas, the workforce such as drivers, transport operators have still not resumed normal work. “Getting raw material and transportation of the finished material is difficult,” he said.
Jain also put the estimates of business loss to about Rs 1,000 crore.
On top of the loss of confidence following riots, power shortages have added to the woes of the industrial units in the area.
“Even the power situation is not good here in the industrial areas since they are giving more supply to the city’s residential areas. There is about 4-5 hour power cuts during night,” Kedia, who is also the past President of the Federation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME), said adding police patrolling was being done but was not sufficient.
Jain, who is also the Central Executive Committee Member of FISME, said there was no production at night because of shortage of workforce as also power cuts.
Summing up, they said the riots have dealt a deadly blow to the people of the city and immense loss of confidence to the industry and business. (KNN /SD/PC)
Muzaffarnagar, Sept 17 (KNN) Trade activities have resumed in the city but industry has not been able to resume full production since the workforce drawn from the near about villages want to leave before the sunset and are not prepared to work at night , as the city is trying to come to grip with deadly riots which claimed 44 lives.
“While people, especially those living on daily wages are back to work, workers are not willing to do night shift as there is a sense of insecurity,” Managing Director of the city-based Chakradhar Chemicals Private Ltd Neeraj Kedia said, estimating the total loss of Rs 1,000 crore to the trade and industry from the riots which broke out from August 27 and engulfed Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts for over a week.
According to Director of Dayachand Engineering Industries, Navin Jain, some labourers are turning up but they are not confident enough; they want to leave early by 4-5 PM.
As the riots had spread into the rural areas, the workforce such as drivers, transport operators have still not resumed normal work. “Getting raw material and transportation of the finished material is difficult,” he said.
Jain also put the estimates of business loss to about Rs 1,000 crore.
On top of the loss of confidence following riots, power shortages have added to the woes of the industrial units in the area.
“Even the power situation is not good here in the industrial areas since they are giving more supply to the city’s residential areas. There is about 4-5 hour power cuts during night,” Kedia, who is also the past President of the Federation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME), said adding police patrolling was being done but was not sufficient.
Jain, who is also the Central Executive Committee Member of FISME, said there was no production at night because of shortage of workforce as also power cuts.
Summing up, they said the riots have dealt a deadly blow to the people of the city and immense loss of confidence to the industry and business. (KNN /SD/PC)
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