Labourers demand payment for job done
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, February 22 2023:
Charging Meitram Construction Private Limited, the firm assigned the contract for constructing the breast wall and culvert from Yaingangpokpi to Finch Corner along the NH 202, with depriving their payment despite completion of the work, contract labourers engaged by the firm have demanded payment of the due wages within three days or and warned of launching intense agitation in case of failure.
Addressing media persons in this regard at Manipur Press Club, here, on Wednesday, one of the contract labourers, named Kh Chourajit informed that construction of the said breast wall and culvert was taken up on contract under Meitram Construction Private Limited and started from 2021 .
The work was completed in November the same year.
However, the payment for the construction work is still pending.
No official of the firm is now available to look into the matter and the phone numbers of the firm's officials through which the contract labourers were engaged earlier are now unavailable, he said, while appealing to the chief minister to look into the matter and solve the problems faced by the contract labourers.