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Labour contract agencies directed to get working on police verification of workers

MARGAO
Against the backdrop of councillors voicing concern over the appointment of door-to-door garbage workers sans police verification, Margao Municipal Council Chief Officer Agnelo Fernandes has issued directions to the labour contractor agencies to submit details of tenant verifications of the workers.

In a note put up on Tuesday, the Chief Officer made it clear to the labour contract agencies to submit the details, including Aadhar cards of the agencies involved in engaging the contract workers to maintain checks on the workers from the safety and security point of view.

The councillors had voiced concern over petty thefts taking place in the wards and had requested the contractors to fill up the stranger roll forms and undergo all the norms in force.


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CM’s intervention sought to ask MPT not to interfere in shack biz

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Nov 10, 2021, 12:32 AM IST
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VASCOShack operators and activists have sought Chief Minister Pramod Sawant's intervention to ask the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) not to interfere into the traditional shack business managed by Goans. The issue came up after some shack owners at Arossim, trying to set up shacks, were asked to get a NOC from the MPT. Founder member of Goencho Ekvott Orville Dourado said that his group along with other NGOs had made several attempts to highlight the impact of the Major…

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