Stone crusher owners on strike from today

Hamirpur, July 7

The Stone Crusher Operators Union has decided to go on a strike from tomorrow and halt the sale and production of grit and sand until the demands of the union are accepted.

This was stated by Ashok Thakur, president of the union, here yesterday. He said the pandemic had adversely affected the production and restrictions imposed by the government had added to their woes. The union had requested the government to permit mechanical excavation of crushing material from the riverbeds due to the crisis of labour. It had become difficult for crusher owners to manually collect the material as it could not meet the running capacity of the crushing units.

He said there were over 350 crushers in the state and more than 5,000 families were dependent on these. The government should allow front loader machines to be used for mining.

Ashok Thakur said the union support the demands raised by the crushers operators of Una district and if the government would not accept the demands, the production could be halted in the state. — OC