SHILLONG: Bandaru Dattatreya, Union Minister of State (Independent charge) Labour and Employment, will lay the foundation stone of Regional Labour Institute Shillong at Rynjah on Friday in the presence of Chief Minister Mukul Sangma.
This will be the sixth labour institute under the Directorate General, Factory Advice Service and Labour Institutes (DGFASLI), Union Ministry of Labour and Employment. The other five institutes are located in Mumbai, Chennai, Kanpur, Kolkata and Faridabad.
Labour Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh, Shillong MP Vincent H Pala, Labour Department Secretary M. Sathiyavathy, Director General of DGFASLI Avneesh Singh and central and state government officials, among others, will also be present.
The objective of establishing the institute is to strengthen the industrial safety and health in the northeastern states coming under the jurisdiction of the institute.
The institute will impart training and consultancy services in the area of occupational safety and health and run the long-term educational courses and professional programmes on the same.
The new regional labour institute will have jurisdiction in the northeastern states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
The land for construction of the institute, which will have a four-storey building comprising office and the hostel block, has been made available by the State Government.
The institute will have divisions such as industrial safety, industrial hygiene, industrial medicine, industrial physiology/ergonomics, major hazard control and chemical safety, health and environment exhibition centres.
The institute will be equipped with modern classrooms, a library-cum-information centre and a webinar centre.
Besides, the institute hostel will have a 50-bed executive building comprising 22 double and triple bedrooms. The construction of the building has been entrusted to CPWD Shillong to be built at a cost of Rs 17.40 crore and the institute will start functioning in 2020.
