Website made to provide jobs to Sterlite workers

The Tuticorin administration has announced the release of www.thoothukudi.online for the advantage of hundreds of Sterlite contract labourers who lost their jobs following the closure of the copper plant on May 28. The website online will act as a bridge between jobless labourers looking for change job alternatives and industries which might be in need of labourers. While the corporate has taken steps to protect the jobs of everlasting workers, as regards to three,000 contract labourers are clueless about their long run and making representations to the district administration to lend a hand them get jobs.

Collector Sandeep Nanduri instructed TOI the decision was taken based on a chain of representations by the labourers. “We introduced the website online after maintaining discussions with representatives of industry our bodies and about 100 industrialists to spot the labour requirements of the local industries.”