Mangaluru builder spends over Rs 2 lakh to bring back 35 workers from Bengal
Team Udayavani, Jul 28, 2020, 2:42 PM IST
Mangaluru: As many as 35 migrant labourers from Malda district in West Bengal were brought back to the city by a sleeper bus engaged by Marian Projects Private Limited (MPPL). The reached Mangalur on late Monday, July 27 night.
During the lockdown, about 30,000 labourers from Mangaluru had returned to their native villages in different parts of the country ou of which 175 labourers working on a project of a 23-floor high-rise building with 300 apartments, 100 offices had also returned to their villages in Malda district, situated close to the Bangladesh border.
In order to resume the project, the builder Naveen Cardoza arranged a sleeper bus to bring at least 35 labourers back to the city. The bus left Mangaluru on July 18 and returned on July 27. It covered a whopping 5,100 km.
The expenses incurred in bringing back the labourers exceeded Rs 2 lakh, according to the builder Naveen Cardoza.
Recently Naveen had arranged the flight tickets of five expert masons from Kolkata to Bengaluru. Their airfares and travel expenditure were borne by Naveen, who is also chairman of CREDAI, Mangaluru.
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