Gohil asks Modi to a be pro-active leader
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- Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:06
- Published on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:06
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Gujarat Global News Network, New Delhi
Leader of Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly, Shaktisinh Gohil has asked CM Narendra Modi to take a pro-active approach rather than just being a statement minster. Gohil was talking in context with the issue of Gujarati laborers stuck at a cement factory site in Angola.
Gohil said that External Affairs Minister held a meeting of all senior officials of the External Affairs Ministry with the Shakhtisinh Gohil, the Leader of Opposition in the Gujarat Assembly at Delhi. At the meeting, the situation arising from the agitation by workers working at cement factory in Angola was extensively discussed and a review of the steps taken was conducted by the minister.
Work at a cement factory located in the Sumbe city of Angola has been going on since the last three years. Laborers from India, Bangladesh and Nepal are working at this factory since the last three years. The workers have been taken there through an agency at the promise of a salary of Rs 32,000 per month. The salary of the workers was credited in their accounts in American Dollars.
Gohil also said that in the past when residents of states like AP were in trouble in UAE, their CMs had sent the representatives to the UAE with the permission of the MEA, and arranged for their return tickets and emergency certificates. The CM should send officers from Gujarat to aid these workers and provide lawyers to those against whom criminal cases have been filed in Angola. Gohil was assured by the external affairs minister that all help would be provided to a team form Gujarat if it comes forward.Â
The External Affairs Minister has personally talked to senior authorities in the Angola government and requested that humanitarian approach be taken with the people in trouble. He also requested that the people in police custody be treated humanely. Â The external affairs ministry had send a representative of the embassy in Angola to get a report about people in jail. The situation at the cement factory is normal at present and arrangements have been made to have safe return of the workers who had fled into the jungles. Arrangements have been made for food and lodging for the workers at the factory site.
 The Indian embassy has been instructed to issue emergency certificates to those workers who want to return and whose passports are with the agency. A senior embassy official has been assigned the job of sending report about jail and the factory site to the government time to time. There are many who want to stay back and work there and instructions have been issued to make proper arrangements for their employment. Is has been decided to provide logistic support to those who have been charged with criminal cases.
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