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In the aftermath of the Ranipet tragedy that claimed the lives of 10 workers in the premises of the SIDCO Industrial estate factory, nine of whom were from West Bengal, officials have yet to come to grips with implementing measures that are already in place and instituting further measures to ensure that accidents such as this one do not occur in the future. The problems are pervasive and systemic and include routine exploitation of migrant workers, flouting rules of safety for protecting workers and widespread corruption allowing officials to disregard rules. According to official figures, there are more than 5,000 migrant workers employed in the leather and tannery factories in the SIDCO Industrial Estate. The migrant workers should be properly registered by the authorities as per the Inter-State Migrant Workmen Act 1979. The fact finding team has indicated that officials attached to the Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health have hurriedly registered the migrant workers who died after the tragic accident, manipulating documents clearly flouting rules. “We suspect that the records were created in a hurry after the accident. The nine workers had been working in the factory over six months, but officials created the registration documents stating they were new employees,” claimed a member of the National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation (NCHRO) Professor A Marx, who led the four member fact-finding committee.
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