ISSUE DATE: May 10, 2021
UPDATED: May 1, 2021 19:48 IST
Workers at Matrix Clothing Factory in Gurugram, Haryana, in February 2021, by Chandradeep Kumar
The concern in Prakash Padikkal’s voice is quite palpable. Padikkal, 65, owns Havistha Steel, a company in Navi Mumbai that makes equipment and storage tanks for the chemicals, food and pharmaceutical sectors. Classified as an essential business, Padikkal is allowed to keep work going, exempted from the restrictions in place in Maharashtra, which were just extended from May 1 until May 15. Nonetheless, he says he faces a financial squeeze, with low demand because of various Covid-19 lockdowns across India on the one side and rising input costs on the other. He says prices of one input mild steel have shot up from near Rs 40 a kg to about Rs 85 a kg, and that he is stuck with the loss since many of his contracts use fixed prices.
India Inc voices opposition to fresh lockdowns amid Covid surge Rajiv Bajaj, the outspoken managing director of Bajaj Auto, on Monday warned a hard lockdown would lead to the absence of medical attention to the sick
India Inc has voiced its opposition to fresh lockdowns amid a record spike in coronavirus cases.
Rajiv Bajaj, the outspoken managing director of Bajaj Auto, on Monday warned a hard lockdown would lead to the absence of medical attention to the sick who are suffering from other ailments.
Bajaj told television channels that 95 per cent of those testing positive are either asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Governments, therefore, should not impose lockdowns that affect the livelihood of thousands.
Kamal Morarka (18 June 1946 - 15 January 2021) Qurban Ali 28 Jan 2021
A distinguished citizen and industrialist, good samaritan, committed to the cause of Socialism and President of the Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya), Kamal Morarka passed away on 15th January 2021. He was 74. Kamal Morarka was born in a traditional Marwari family on 18th June 1946 in Nawalgarh, Rajasthan. His father, Mahavir Prasad Morarka and uncle Radhyeshyam Morarka were industrialists, but also socialist. His uncle, a role model for him, was a parliamentarian and a socialist who represented many terms in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
Kamal was born in a family of industrialists and was educated in elite institutions, Cathedral School and St Xavier’s College, in what was then Bombay. Kamal Morarka was interested in politics from his student days and was closely associated with former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar since his Janata Party days in 1977. Social-democratic politic
National holidays still a dream of Chennai workmen
Updated Jan 25, 2021, 10:57 am IST
Companies asking their employees to work on holidays to stabilise the incurred losses in the after COVID times
A file photo used for representational purposes only (Image source: Swapan Mahapatra/ PTI)
CHENNAI: As the country is all set to observe its Republic day as a national holiday, the workmen in many factories across the city are still forced to work without adequate benefits over the years.
This practice has been going on over the years at a time when the Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishments (National and Festival Holidays) Act 1958 provides for the grant of National festival holidays to persons employed in industrial establishments across the State.