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In a notable step, Kanniyakumari District Superintendent of Police (SP) R. Stalin has directed the officials of the Fisheries and Police departments to support a database of inter and intra-state migrant workers, employed astatine sportfishing harbours successful the territory to facilitate easier tracking of crimes involving them whether arsenic victims oregon suspects.
The territory has 3 authorities sportfishing harbours located astatine Chinna Muttom, Colachel and Thengapattinam. Hundreds of inter and intra-State migrants are employed successful these harbours arsenic regular wage workers, including immoderate venturing into oversea with the fishermen.
However, it has ever been a hard task to place the inheritance of these migrants, arsenic galore of them astatine the harbours are identified lone by the names they provide, without immoderate due authentication. Apart from crimes, if a vessel collides with a ship, starring to injuries oregon sometimes fatal accidents, fishermen’s associations present conflict to unafraid compensation for the migrants successful lack of due documents.
As the 61 days sportfishing prohibition play on the eastbound seashore of the authorities has ended fewer days ago, Mr. Stalin has inspected Chinna Muttom harbour and directed the officials to support a database of migrant workers. The process volition beryllium carried retired jointly by the Fisheries and Fishermen Welfare Department and the Police Department.
Valid individuality cards of the migrants volition beryllium collected for authentication and details volition beryllium recorded by the fisheries department. Meanwhile the constabulary section volition cod their digit prints. The collected details volition beryllium incorporated into a database, which has been directed to beryllium maintained.
An authoritative from the fisheries section said that arsenic astir of the migrant workers would beryllium engaged connected weekdays, the process would beryllium carried retired during the weekends.
Meanwhile, the inaugural volition beryllium extended to Colachel and Thengapattinam sportfishing harbours aft the sportfishing prohibition play on the district’s westbound seashore concludes.
Captain Johnson, a nonmigratory of Colachel has lauded the inaugural of District SP, stating that it is simply a much-needed effort, arsenic hundreds of migrants from respective states beryllium connected these harbours for their livelihood.
He added that successful the lawsuit immoderate untoward accidents involving them, astatine the workplace, these authenticated databases play a important relation facilitating compensation.
Mr. Johnson further sought for individuality cards for these migrant workers employed astatine harbours and venturing into the oversea for fishing, stating that this would further fortify the nonsubjective of the initiative.
Mr. Stalin said that the inaugural has been undertaken not lone to forestall crimes but besides to guarantee workplace information of these inter and intra-State migrant workers.
