SHILLONG: The Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC)-Shillong City urged the authorities concerned to refrain from issuing and renewing labour licences of contractors and businessmen.
In a memorandum submitted to the deputy commissioner, the Labour Department and the executive member in charge of Labour, KHADC, HYC alleged that contractors and businessmen are hiring inter-state migrants for cheap labour and termed them as “prized catches”.
It asserted that work permit may be a big prize that such immigrants and contractors may be willing to procure at all cost.
“It will put Meghalaya at risk in terms of security with high probability of indigenous people losing their daily bread in the process,” the organisation members said.
