Statesman News Service
MALDA, 3 NOV.: The CPI-ML (Liberation) has raised a sensitive issue related to sericulture and traditional Khadi village industry while campaigning for its candidate in the Sujapur Assembly by-poll.
Though the Sujapur are is famous for silk yarn production and large number of people depend on sericulture many local people have left their villages in search of jobs to other states and have turned into migrant workers.
Highlighting the point, the CPI-ML (Liberation) leadership has held both the Congress and the CPI-M for ailing to bring technological development in sericulture industry to create more job opportunity for the local people in the khadi institutions registered under the Khadi Village Industries Corporation (KVIC), a Central unit.
According to the Liberation leadership, the Sujapur area has 32 traditional khadi and silk units but only a few are operational. The organisations’ state committee leader Mr. Nabakumar Biswas said: “Most of the organizers run khadi institutions here to earn subsidy from the Centre. Those do not have reeling machines and other units for producing silk yarn and other products. They do not engage any local labour either”.
“The organizers show papers pertaining to cocoon purchase through the government and engage labourers only on paper to show yearly accounts. But, the local labourers are practically deprived and so go to other states in search of jobs”, he added.
Substantiating the allegation a Congress leader from Kaliachak, Mr. Enarul Haque said that about 30,000 people, who are all voters of Sujapur Assembly segment, are currently working in different states for upkeep. “Eighty per cent of such migrant workers are Congress supporters”, Mr. Haque claimed.
The Left Front leadership, however, stated that migrant workers were not interested in returning to ast votes in the by-poll because it is the second by-election in the segment.
The district sericulture development officers are also not happy with the functioning of the khadi institutions in Sujapur and Kaliachak areas. The deputy director of sericulture in Malda Mr. S Das had drawn the state owned Khadi Village Industries Board (KVIB) authority’s attention on the matter.
The KVIB district officer Mr. Deborshi Roy said: “Some khadi institutions have lost both mission and vision. The traditional village industrial units run by a group of people could not survive due to internal problems. Subsidy for some units remains held up due to faulty paper work”.
MALDA, 3 NOV.: The CPI-ML (Liberation) has raised a sensitive issue related to sericulture and traditional Khadi village industry while campaigning for its candidate in the Sujapur Assembly by-poll.
Though the Sujapur are is famous for silk yarn production and large number of people depend on sericulture many local people have left their villages in search of jobs to other states and have turned into migrant workers.
Highlighting the point, the CPI-ML (Liberation) leadership has held both the Congress and the CPI-M for ailing to bring technological development in sericulture industry to create more job opportunity for the local people in the khadi institutions registered under the Khadi Village Industries Corporation (KVIC), a Central unit.
According to the Liberation leadership, the Sujapur area has 32 traditional khadi and silk units but only a few are operational. The organisations’ state committee leader Mr. Nabakumar Biswas said: “Most of the organizers run khadi institutions here to earn subsidy from the Centre. Those do not have reeling machines and other units for producing silk yarn and other products. They do not engage any local labour either”.
“The organizers show papers pertaining to cocoon purchase through the government and engage labourers only on paper to show yearly accounts. But, the local labourers are practically deprived and so go to other states in search of jobs”, he added.
Substantiating the allegation a Congress leader from Kaliachak, Mr. Enarul Haque said that about 30,000 people, who are all voters of Sujapur Assembly segment, are currently working in different states for upkeep. “Eighty per cent of such migrant workers are Congress supporters”, Mr. Haque claimed.
The Left Front leadership, however, stated that migrant workers were not interested in returning to ast votes in the by-poll because it is the second by-election in the segment.
The district sericulture development officers are also not happy with the functioning of the khadi institutions in Sujapur and Kaliachak areas. The deputy director of sericulture in Malda Mr. S Das had drawn the state owned Khadi Village Industries Board (KVIB) authority’s attention on the matter.
The KVIB district officer Mr. Deborshi Roy said: “Some khadi institutions have lost both mission and vision. The traditional village industrial units run by a group of people could not survive due to internal problems. Subsidy for some units remains held up due to faulty paper work”.
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