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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, who completed one year in office this month, on Thursday appealed to more industries to invest in the state and promised that there will not be any hurdles in setting up their business.Interacting with senior officials of the industries here, the CM said the state government is ready to provide adequate land, water, energy and a skilled workforce for establishing the business. Already, 1,600 acres of land has been allocated to 1,466 new companies of which nearly 23 prominent business houses that have shown interest in starting their ventures in the state, an official statement said quoting CM having said during the interaction. Reddy informed industries that there are investment opportunities in the areas of infrastructure development, steel, and agriculture and allied sectors in the state, which has a long coastline of 972 km besides good rail and road connectivity, four ports and six airports. "We are open to ideas and appeal to … [Read more...] about Andhra Pradesh exhorts industries to invest in state

Coimbatore Industrial Associations Forum, a federation of micro and small industry associations in the city, petitioned district collector K Rajamani on Thursday, urging to operate buses to transport the workers, who were stuck in their native districts, back to the district.They also sought a direction to banks to provide them the collateral-free loans as promised by the Centre.Pointing out that many workers of micro and small units were from southern districts of the state, the members said they were stuck in their homes because of lockdown. “While the units have been permitted to resume operations, we are not able to function properly in the absence of enough workforce. We don’t have the wherewithal to bring them in private vehicles. So, we urge the district administration to operate buses to bring our workers back,” a representative of the forum said.Referring to the Rs 3 lakh crore relief package that was announced by the Centre for industries, they said … [Read more...] about Operate buses to bring back workers to industrial units: TN industry body

NEW DELHI: Sitting in a high chair with black leather, bracing for a spray of cold water, and the snip-snap sound of deftly moving scissors behind the ears have recently become things of the past as hair cutting salons and beauty parlours across the country fell silent due to the nationwide lockdown. As the country stumbled back to a semblance of normalcy in lockdown 4.0, most salons and parlours remained shut, leaving the beauty industry dry and desperate for business and their owners hoping to survive the financial pandemic. It has been over two months that 40-year-old Arif last opened his salon. He left without any income when he decided to go back to his village in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh because there he has "something to eat at least". "Hum chote logon ke bare mein kaun sochta hai shehar me (in the city there is nobody to look after us, the poor people)," said the father of four over a phone call. "My shop is rented, so is my house in Ghaziabad, how will I pay that rent? Here … [Read more...] about Shuttered shops, silent scissors: Beauty industry looks at bleak future

Artist, technicians, managers, skilled and unskilled workers across the whole spectrum of the audio-visual industry will soon be eligible for appointments with written contracts, and get minimum wages, safe working conditions, health benefits and electronic payment of salary. The labour ministry is working on a new legislation that will supersede the Cine-Workers and the Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act of 1981. The move is expected to formalise the $20-billion media and entertainment industry. Currently, workforce involved only in cinema theatre, cinematographic film and feature films (a full length cinema) were covered under the Act and paid in cash, often depriving other workers involved in documentary or other audio-visual production of bare minimum benefits of a worker. The industry provided employment, both direct and indirect, to over 5 million people in 2017. Currently, most of the semi-skilled or unskilled workforce in the audio-visual industry works … [Read more...] about Minimum wages, health benefits for all media & entertainment industry workers soon

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday signed initial agreements with various industry bodies to help in providing 11 lakh jobs to migrant labourers who have returned to the state in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Indian Industries Association (IIA) accounted for three lakh jobs each, while NARDECO and Laghu Udyog Bharati accounted for 2.5 lakh jobs each, UP MSME minister Sidharth Nath Singh told PTI. He said memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, whose promise to provide jobs to migrants returning to the state was fulfilled by the MSME department of the UP government. "To those who had raised questions as to how the state government will carry out the gigantic task of providing 11 lakh jobs to skilled and semi-skilled labourers, the MSME department has given the answer," Singh asserted. The minister pointed out that certain states had … [Read more...] about Uttar Pradesh govt inks MOUs with industry bodies for 11 lakh jobs to migrant workers