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Nellore: Collector seeks info on jobs given to locals in SembCorp
District Collector MV Seshagiri Babu directed the officials on Friday to collect details of local people, who were employed in the SembCorp thermal plant located at Pynapuram in Muthukur mandal within two days.
Nellore: District Collector MV Seshagiri Babu directed the officials on Friday to collect details of local people, who were employed in the SembCorp thermal plant located at Pynapuram in Muthukur mandal within two days.
It may be recalled that the locals staged protests in front of the thermal plant for some time for not providing employment. Sarvepalli MLA Kakani Govardhan Reddy initiated a meeting with the district officials on Friday as industries failed to provide employment to the local jobless. The Collector said locals should be preferred in power projects in the district and asked SembCorp official Ramesh Raman for details of employment to the local people.
Ramesh Raman informed the Collector that there are 2,278 employees in the plant in which 1,029 are locals. But the MLA asked the category-wise list of employees and their designations and from which village they belong to. Babu directed plant official to prepare the list within two days.
Govardhan stated that the people from nearby villages staged protests in front of the plant earlier and the AP Pollution Control Board (APPCB) had served notices to the plant authorities. He mentioned farm fields near the thermal plant damaged due to pollution, fish resources spoiled, and the environment also highly affected with the activities of the Plant.
The Collector assured MLA that he would personally visit the areas and take appropriate action. He mentioned they would depute a team of scientists from the Krishi Vigyan Kendra for a detailed investigation on ill-effects of thermal plant on local population.
Nellore RDO Chinni Krishna, SE (RWS) Naga Jyothi, SembCorp representatives, Tahsildars , PCB (AEE) Srinivasa Rao and others were present.
