CHANDIGARH – Industry in Punjab fears an âexodusâ of migrant workers, repeat of the 2020 situation when labourers went back home after lockdown, while some businessmen are claiming they have started heading back to their states.
According to industrialists, migrant workers have a fear that a total lockdown may be clamped as was done last year in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases.
To avoid any hardship that was faced last year after the lockdown was imposed, workers have started returning to their homes, they said.
âWe are trying to convince them to stay back. But, some of them have started going back to their states as workers say they do not want to face again any bad experience which they saw last year,â said Ludhiana-based industrialist Vinod Thapar on Tuesday.
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Earlier, the cabinet minister also inaugurated the 8.5 km and 100 feet wide approach road connecting Chandigarh Road to cycle valley that has been constructed at a cost of Rs 66 crore.
He was also accompanied by HMC Chairman and Managing Director Pankaj Munjal, PSIEC Chairman Gurpreet Singh Bassi, PMIDB Chairman Amarjit Singh Tikka, Punjab Youth Development Board Chairman Sukhwinder Singh Bindra, Senior Congress leader Satwinder Kaur Bitti and SDM Dr Baljinder Singh Dhillon besides several others.
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Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], January 7 (ANI): Punjab Industries Minister Sunder Sham Arora said the allegations of senior BJP leader Tikshan Sood about corruption in the industry department of Punjab were the result of political frustration at being humiliated by farmers all over the country.
Daring him for a lie-detector test to expose his falsehood, Arora said it is not Tikshan s fault to say what he is saying because a person who has been time and again rejected by people can lose it somehow, Arora said.