Labour shortage adds to coffee growers’ woes

Lack of local labour and short working hours is affecting coffee harvesting say coffee growers. Coffee plantation owners in Karnataka are facing losses due to a reduction in production caused by inadequate manpower. Many coffee growers say that the workers do not work adequate hours, leading to crop loss. Dinesh Naik, who owns a coffee […]

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Labourers battered as CM inaugurates PWD officer’s quarters

Construction workers complain at government’s apathy towards their on-site working and living conditions. Labourers lament the deplorable conditions at their living place with no urinals or clean drinking water provision as Chief Minister Basvaraj Bommai kick-started thePublic Works Department’s state government officers’ quarters project in Vasanth Nagar. Workers living in tin sheds complain about the […]

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