Date:10/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/10/stories/2008121055851100.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Workers’ committee seeks safety plan

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: The State Government should pass orders requiring all developers and constructors to submit a detailed safety plan before they can take up any construction work, Construction Workers’ Welfare Action Committee has said.

A team from the committee, which visited the construction site of Prestige-Shantiniketan Township at Whitefield here in which two workers were killed and one was injured on Monday when mud caved in, said that safety norms should be put in place.

The committee has expressed shock that yet another accident has occurred within two months of the first one at the same site.

The committee has demanded that work be stopped at the site and workers be paid for all days till work is restarted.

Meanwhile, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Janawadi Mahila Sanghatane (JMS) staged a demonstration at the construction site.

JMS leader Gowramma and CPIM leaders H.N. Gopal Gowda and Muniraju participated in the demonstration.

The demonstrators also urged Labour Minister B.N. Bachche Gowda, who inspected the construction site on Tuesday, to direct the company to provide adequate safety to construction workers.