KTR flays govt. ‘indignity' towards Sigachi migrant workers' bodies
BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao has criticised the State Government for its 'indifferent attitude' towards the migrant workers, who were killed in the Sigachi Industries blast here, stating that their mortal remains were being sent in cartons (cardboards) to their native places, without any respect to the departed souls.
'Why can't we at least provide dignity in their death and closure to their loved ones. Why is this so impossible?', Mr. Rama Rao asked.
He said in a statement on Friday that over 50 workers were killed in the blast, despite the lesser official count, as many workers were still missing and their family members' pleas to the police and other authorities to trace them had failed to move them.
Stating that migrant workers play an equal role in the development of the State, along with those from the State, he alleged that the State Government had failed to give even correct information on the number of workers engaged in work at the time of the blast and the details of those missing.
He reminded the government that the previous KCR Government had provided free ration to migrant workers at the time of COVID on a par with those from the State and had even arranged trains for sending them back to their native places, when no other State Government had cared for migrant workers.
SLBC tragedy
The BRS leader pointed out that the family members of six of the eight workers who were buried alive in the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel collapse were still awaiting the bodies of their dear ones and were yet to get any compensation from the State Government.
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