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  • Hemant meets people at his home, listens to their concerns

    People from across the state turned up at chief minister Hemant Soren’s official residence on Kanke Road on Thursday to seek his help and intervention in resolving some of their problems centred around pensions and availability of civic amenities.

    Hemant, who has been busy chairing review meetings of various departments this week, met each visitor individually and listened to their concerns. Most of the problems shared by the visitors were related to electricity, water, road construction, anomalies in pension and schemes for providing shelter to the poor, officials from his office said.

    “It is the government’s priority to improve civic amenities and basic facilities for the people of the state irrespective of whether they live in cities or villages. Since we were voted to power, we have been trying our level best to address public issues and focus on bridging the gap between the government and the people of the state,” said Hemant.

    Each of the visitors handed over their concerns in writing directly to the chief minister who assured them of speedy redressal. Mostly women from Saraikela Kharsawan and families from far flung villages of Jharkhand visited the CM residence on Thursday, sources from the CMO said.

    Some of the visitors also got small gifts for the CM, mostly mementos, which Hemant accepted with grace.

    Hemant has been one of the most affable CMs in Jharkhand, say experts. Soon after being sworn-in, he won the hearts by his well-meaning gesture of asking for books instead of bouquets. And hardly a fortnight into his tenure at the helm, he started giving due attention to even the smallest of concerns raised by people engaging with officials on Twitter.

  • Steel city joins nationwide trade union strike

    Banking, insurance and postal services in Jamshedpur and the entire Kolhan region comprising of three districts – East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan were affected on Thursday as various trade unions joined the nationwide strike to protest the policies of the Narendra Modi government, including the new labour and farm laws.

    All public and private sector banks, except for the State Bank of India, remained closed. The offices of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and post offices also kept their shutters down and did not transact any business as workers joined the strike.

    Various central trade union organisations participated in the strike including Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Trade Union Co-ordination Centre (TUCC), Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU).

    The BJP-aligned Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) did not participate in the strike.

    Members of various trade unions with placards and banners assembled at the Ambagan grounds in Sakchi. They raised slogans against the policies of the central government. Later, they formed a human chain. Veteran trade union leader Rakeshwar Pandey also participated in the human chain opposing the policies of the centre.

    General secretary of AITUC Ambuj Thakur, who was leading the stir at the Ambagan ground said, “We got an overwhelming response of the strike in Kolhan. The strike was called to oppose the policies of the centre which is anti-labour. We are against privatisation public sector units, commercialisation of mines, new labour and farm laws.”

    The strike failed to have any impact on production activities at factories based on steel city and Adityapur industrial area in adjoining Saraikela-Kharsawan district.