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Water Transport Workers’ Federation all-India wide caput T. Narendra Rao has opposed the connection to make the Golden Jubilee Hospital (GJH) of Visakhapatnam Port Authority (VPA) successful the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode.
Addressing the media connected Friday, Mr. Narendra Rao said that the fig of employees was declining successful the VPA owed to retirements, VRS and freezing of caller recruitments. Retired employees are babelike connected the GJH for their healthcare needs. “The backstage investors would dainty the retired employees arsenic second-class citizens. It is the work of the VPA to tally the hospital,” helium said.
He besides flayed the VPA absorption for the hold successful the announcement of bonus for the employees, though the Central Cabinet had approved the outgo of 78 days bonus for railways employees.
The aforesaid Cabinet had approved the revised strategy for larboard workers successful October 2024. He condemned the hold successful the announcement of bonus for larboard workers.
He decried the ‘discrepancy’ successful the fig of minimum days of enactment being fixed to cargo handling workers successful the VPA and different large ports successful India. While it was lone 16 days successful the VPA, different large ports were giving minimum warrant of 21 days.
CITU leaders K. Satyanarayana, B. Lakshmana Rao and Ganesh were contiguous astatine the media conference.
