Lok Sabha Debates
Regarding Compensation To Construction Workers-Laid. on 3 December, 2019
Seventeenth Loksabha > Title: Regarding compensation to construction workers-laid.
SHRI JAYADEV GALLA (GUNTUR): We have been hearing suicides by farmers due to debt, crop loss, etc. But, we had never heard suicides committed by construction workers due to non-availability of sand.
Due to alleged criminal delay in formulating sand mining policy by Government of Andhra Pradesh, 3 suicides have been reported in my Guntur district alone. Overall, 30-40 construction workers committed suicides in Andhra Pradesh during the last 3-4 months. 30-35 lakh workers in construction industry lost employment in the last 5 months in view of acute shortage of sand.
Sand is not available to common man. State Government says that it is available online. But, site will open for one minute literally. It is anybody’s guess where sand is going; it is the alleged sand mafia which is ruling the roost.
I request the Government of India on behalf of all those construction workers who have died due to non-availability of sand to pay compensation of Rs.10 lakh next of kin from Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Fund immediately.