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New Airport Terminal Construction Workers Complain of Health Hazards
November 02, 2007 at 2:40 PM
General Health News
It is expected to be Asia's largest runway and taxiway - with an estimated investment of Rs.300 billion (approx $7.6 billion) till 2026 - and will handle international flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.
DIAL has hired more than 8,500 workers for the construction work by awarding a sub-tender to a well-known company, Larsen & Toubro (L&T). The authorities have constructed temporary residential colonies for 7,000 workers at the new airport site, but the labourers told IANS they were not being provided good food or proper sanitation facilities.
"We start work at eight in the morning and end up only after eight in the evening. Then we cover a distance of almost three kilometres, a rough and dangerous path, on foot to reach the makeshift rooms," said Rambabu, a worker who has come from West Bengal's Malda district to work here.
The path they have to cross is the dug-up area around the existing airport. Heavy machinery - road rollers and cranes - and men work there continuously in shifts and no one is allowed to enter the site. Workers have been given fluorescent jackets and hard caps to prevent any untoward incidents.
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