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Jharkhand to sign MoU and provide workforce to KPR Mills

  

Jharkhand government plans to sign a MoU with apparel exporter KPR Mills to provide workforce to the company. The MoU entails, Jharkhand will provide KPR Mills 12,000 laborers to expand production lines, including a new mill in Tirupur in Erode district. Most of these laborers will be women. In the first phase, the company will hire nearly 2,000 women.

KPR Mills will provide these laborers a monthly remuneration of Rs 12,000 and take care of their food and lodging. Led by Hemant Soren, Chief Minister, the Jharkhand government is working on a method to document laborers going out of the state and monitor their financial conditions and well-being. It has also pledged to provide jobs to most of the returning migrants within Jharkhand.

A Muthukumar, Labor Commissioner, said based on calls made by them, around 4.5 lakh migrant workers had returned to their homes last year. Through the Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS), the government has been able to map the skills of 20,000 migrant workers. It now plans to find suitable employment opportunities for them.

The department plans to period visits at the production units of the Coimbatore-based company to assess the condition and well-being of the workforce which will be hired.

 
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