India's Modi using slave labor for his vanity projects

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Engineers Who Built Chandrayaan-3 Launch Pad Weren’t Paid Salaries for Over a Year: Report​

Despite the issue of unpaid salaries, the firm delivered the mobile launching pad and other crucial and complex equipment ahead of schedule in December 2022.

A photo of the launch preparation and process of Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14, 2023. Credit: Twitter@isro

The Wire Staff



GOVERNMENT
17/JUL/2023

New Delhi: As the world witnessed the historic Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission on July 14, the engineers who built the launch pad are reported to have not received their salaries for over a year now.



The engineers of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) in Ranchi were not being paid for the past 17 months, news agency IANS reported.

Despite the issue of unpaid salaries, the firm delivered the mobile launching pad and other crucial and complex equipment ahead of schedule in December 2022, the report said.
The HEC is a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Heavy Industries. The firm is located in Ranchi’s Dhurwa area.
Several news outlets have reported about the non-payment of salaries to the company staff for over a year.
Frontline reported in May that some 2,700 workmen and 450 executives had not got their salaries for the past 14 months or so.
In November 2022, IANS had reported that the officers of the company had not received their salary for an entire year and employees for eight-nine months.

It had said that despite having orders worth Rs 1,500 crore from the Indian Space Research Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Railways, Coal India and the steel sector, 80% of the work remains pending due to shortage of funds.
Subhash Chandra, an engineer who was among those who cheered the successful launch of Chandrayaan-3, told the news agency: “The HEC personnel held their heads once again with pride. We are happy that we are partners in such an important project of the country.”
IANS reported, citing sources, that the company requested the Ministry of Heavy Industries several times to provide working capital of Rs 1,000 crore. However, the ministry responded saying that the Union government cannot extend any help.
Moreover, for the last two and a half years, the HEC has not made any permanent appointment for the position of chief managing director, or CMD.
The Chandrayaan-3 was built with a budget of around Rs 600 crore.

Engineers Who Built Chandrayaan-3 Launch Pad Weren’t Paid Salaries for Over a Year: Report

Despite the issue of unpaid salaries, the firm delivered the mobile launching pad and other crucial and complex equipment ahead of schedule in December 2022.

thewire.in

 

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Engineers Who Built Chandrayaan-3 Launch Pad Weren’t Paid Salaries for Over a Year: Report​

Despite the issue of unpaid salaries, the firm delivered the mobile launching pad and other crucial and complex equipment ahead of schedule in December 2022.

A photo of the launch preparation and process of Chandrayaan-3 mission on July 14, 2023. Credit: Twitter@isro

The Wire Staff



GOVERNMENT
17/JUL/2023

New Delhi: As the world witnessed the historic Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission on July 14, the engineers who built the launch pad are reported to have not received their salaries for over a year now.



The engineers of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) in Ranchi were not being paid for the past 17 months, news agency IANS reported.

Despite the issue of unpaid salaries, the firm delivered the mobile launching pad and other crucial and complex equipment ahead of schedule in December 2022, the report said.
The HEC is a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Heavy Industries. The firm is located in Ranchi’s Dhurwa area.
Several news outlets have reported about the non-payment of salaries to the company staff for over a year.
Frontline reported in May that some 2,700 workmen and 450 executives had not got their salaries for the past 14 months or so.
In November 2022, IANS had reported that the officers of the company had not received their salary for an entire year and employees for eight-nine months.

It had said that despite having orders worth Rs 1,500 crore from the Indian Space Research Organisation, Ministry of Defence, Railways, Coal India and the steel sector, 80% of the work remains pending due to shortage of funds.
Subhash Chandra, an engineer who was among those who cheered the successful launch of Chandrayaan-3, told the news agency: “The HEC personnel held their heads once again with pride. We are happy that we are partners in such an important project of the country.”
IANS reported, citing sources, that the company requested the Ministry of Heavy Industries several times to provide working capital of Rs 1,000 crore. However, the ministry responded saying that the Union government cannot extend any help.
Moreover, for the last two and a half years, the HEC has not made any permanent appointment for the position of chief managing director, or CMD.
The Chandrayaan-3 was built with a budget of around Rs 600 crore.

Engineers Who Built Chandrayaan-3 Launch Pad Weren’t Paid Salaries for Over a Year: Report

Despite the issue of unpaid salaries, the firm delivered the mobile launching pad and other crucial and complex equipment ahead of schedule in December 2022.

thewire.in

Wire is known to fabricate stories. Lol.

 

[NG Missile Vessels]

PSUs are not on government payroll and also the sick ones tend to get trapped in a continuous cycle of having to undercut prices to win contracts and fail to deliver on time attracting Liquidated Damages.
PSU is not same as ISRO.

PSU is not to be funded by govt but should be self sustaining. HEC is in severe loss and are not generating profits and hence the current conditions.

Hopefully they will merge it into BHEL or sell it

And for the record, govt employees received salaries even during lockdown.

 

[ProudThamizhan]

@Abdul Rehman Majeed - it is actually even worse. These engineers were not only unpaid slave labor but were also children. Please change the thread title to Child Slave Labor.

Further reports indicate they were also handicapped these engineers. You should change title to Handicapped Slave Child Labor.

It gets worse. Turns out they were neither handicapped nor children But they were all mentally disturbed, Please change the title to Abdul Rehman Majeed

 

[One_Nation]

Unpaid work is a part of Indian culture. They promote it everywhere they go.

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