Migrant workers attack officials of construction site attached to IIT Hyderabad over pending wages
Hyderabad/IBNS: Migrant workers employed by a construction company resorted to violence demanding their pending wages and permission to return home, on Wednesday near IIT Hyderabad.
The labourers allegedly pelted stones and vandalised vehicles when the officials of the construction company came to request them to get back to work at a site attached to IIT Hyderabad, said an NDTV report.
At least one police official was injured in the incident.
The workers lost their calm due to non-payment of salaries for two months after the construction work was stopped to implement social distancing norms to arrest the spread of coronavirus.
At least 2,600 workers are living in the facilities near the IIT campus and said they were receiving food, but haven't received a penny of their salaries. This is despite Centre's lockdown directives to companies, who have employed contract workers, to pay March and April salaries.
After the construction company was allowed to resume work, it requested the labourers to start with their jobs.
According to the NDTV report, police is hesitant to take a strict action on the migrant workers but have told them their respective states may not allow them entry even if they are allowed to go home.
A source in Telangana government has told NDTV that the IIT should have informed and the state administration would have taken care of the migrants.
"They have given Telangana a bad name. If they had informed us, we would have taken care," the report quoted the source as saying.
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