India News | Over 19k Migrant Returnees Have Been Provided Work by PWD: Pilot
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot said on Tuesday that over 19,000 migrants who returned to the state from other parts of the country have been provided employment by the Public Works Department in road development and other projects.
Jaipur, Jun 9 (PTI) Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot said on Tuesday that over 19,000 migrants who returned to the state from other parts of the country have been provided employment by the Public Works Department in road development and other projects.
He said providing relief to workers was the primary goal of the Congress government and noted that during the lockdown various road development works had to be stopped in the state.
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Efforts were made to resume work as soon as permission was granted in the revised lockdown so that more workers could get employment quickly, the deputy chief minister said.
He said that a plan was made to carry out 2,678 development works related to about 8,590 km of roads costing Rs 3,700 crore. Presently, 746 works have been started in the state.
He said that most of the works are for road construction and development. Besides, a large number of works have also been started on national highways, PPP and building construction related works.
The Public Works Department minister said that in time of such a crisis, these works will be given priority so that more and more workers can get relief. PTI AG AAR AAR 06092028 NNNN Philippine navy and cargo ships to dock and unload construction materials and heavy equipment for new projects, including the repair of a seawater-eroded airstrip.
Military barracks, more civilian homes, a school, an ice plant for fishermen, solar and diesel power supplies and a radio station for weather reports are also planned, Lorenzana said.
A fishermen's shelter is being completed with plans for it to be inaugurated on Friday when the Philippines marks its Independence Day, he said.
With the beach ramp now usable, “we can go full blast,” the defence chief said.
China, the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia have had increasingly tense territorial spats in the region in recent years after China turned seven disputed reefs into missile-protected island bases, including three with runways. Taiwan and Brunei also have claims in the busy waterway.
Indonesia is not officially involved in the conflicts but has had confrontations with Chinese fishermen and coast guard vessels which it has accused of encroaching into the Natuna Sea near the disputed waters.
Lorenzana said the government has no plan to militarise the island by arming it with missiles, cannons or other heavy weapons.
Three nearby sand bars collectively called Sandy Cay have become a new front in the disputes after China accused the Philippines of attempting to construct structures there a few years ago.
Since then, flotillas of Chinese fishing boats and coast guard and navy ships have kept a close watch on Sandy Cay, sparking protests from the Philippines.
In April, the Philippines protested China's establishment of two districts to administer the Spratlys and another group of islands and reefs. The Philippines also lodged a protest over a Chinese navy ship's aiming of its weapons control radar at a Philippine navy ship in mid-February.
The radar locks weapons on a target prior to an actual attack, although the Chinese navy ship did not fire, the Philippine navy said.
China has denied it aimed a weapon at the Philippine ship, a Philippine official said, but it has continued to warn foreign military ships and aircraft, including those of the United States, from approaching its island bases. (AP)
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