Thrissur: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has promised effective measures to protect construction sector and workers hit by the policies of Union government like demonetization.
Addressing a public meeting here on Sunday at the conclusion of the conference of the Trade Unions International of Building, Wood, Building Materials and Industries (UITBB), he said the regressive policies had created the crisis.
"In construction sector with 3.5 crore direct and 1.5 crore indirect workers has come to a standstill. The situation in Kerala is no better. There is difficulty in sourcing building materials, soil and granite,” he said.
He further said the Green Tribunal had come in the way of smooth functioning of the sector and Centre had failed to address the rise in prices of cement, steel and sand.
“Due to demonetization, several interstate workers have returned, and the BJP has even failed to take their trade union (BMS) into confidence,” he said.
He also said that as per the promise by Narendra Modi before elections, by now, his government should have given jobs to five crore people. But the total jobs created in the last two-and-a-half years are just 1.3 lakh.
