Rambagh flyover in limbo as construction Co fires 40 local workers

After working for two consecutive years on the Ram Bagh flyover project, Simplex Infrastructure Limited (SIL) Friday terminated 40 local workers without any prior notification, pushing them to further hardships post-floods.
As the project is being funded by ADB (Asian Development Bank), which clarifies the norms about the utilization of local resources and recruitment of local workers on the project, officials said.
The work on the 3.9 km flyover commence on September 2013, the work on Rs 350 crore flyover project, amid to ease traffic woes on the essential road length to Srinagar Airport.
The workers alleged that they were working hard according to the norms of ADB which evaluated our work for 8 hours a day.
The Labour commissions Law stated that there should be 40 per cent to 60 per cent local labors recruited on the project.
“There is no justification of Simplex infrastructure Limited to terminate the PRW staff on the excuse of fewer paces of work,” said a non-state staff, working with the construction company.
“Earlier the SIL had fired eight staff members without any reason,” he said.
The Simplex has prearranged preferences to non locals to accumulate money on numerous accounts which we will unveil on appropriate time and forum.
“The SIP lied to us repeatedly that no working is going on anywhere on the project, as we are aware about the fact that the work of the project is going on at three places. We are calmly requesting to the chief Executive officer of ERA to gently look onto the matter and do justice with our families,” a staffer, Fayaz Ahmad said.
In order to mislead the Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) and DSC authorities and to defend the execution of local youth from the ongoing project.
The Simplex Infrastructures Limited way out a drama of terminating the services of those who had been hired basically for the project or they left the job themselves as they were not paid as per the norms of labours commissions’ law.
The staffers said, that the Non locals were not getting paid for their work in time and were also enforced to work afar of the prescribed working hours. Simplex also instructs the labours not to disclose the facts to the visiting officers of ERA and DSC on the project.
“We are terminating the staff as our machines are not functional after devastated floods of Kashmir. The initiative has been taken according to the orders of Labor Commissions Law, “General Manager SIP, Sunil Pahlwan said.