Kerala. Change of abnormal position

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The government has decided to change such abnormal position. The ministry of the industry of Kerala has developed the reorganisation plan kojrovoj the industries in which it is now occupied 600 thousand workers. From it the intermediary is expelled, and it is translated on a co-operative basis at which fundamental laws of workers are provided, their salary raises, working conditions improve.

For last years in Kerala have begun modernisation and other branch of smokestack industry - manufactures of nuts keshju, going mainly for export. On a share of India 90 percent of world export of this nut are necessary.

It is necessary to visit at factory on processing of crude nuts keshju to see, what is labour-consuming and uneasy process. A nutlet which is concluded in thick, big durability a peel, in special furnaces, then women (only they are occupied in manufacture) in the beginning burn, squatting, a heavy metal pestle break the peel which has charred from above of a nut. Each time, when the working woman with force raises a pestle to strike on a nut, involuntarily you shudder - it seems, that now it will miss and will smash to itself fingers with which holds a nut. In following shop, and besides hands, working women remove the thin thin skin which has stuck to it from a nut kernel. Then there is easier work-sorting and finished goods packing. Till now private businessmen widely use here work nadomnits, it is severe them maintaining.

This branch suffers from chronic shortage of raw materials, therefore India imports a great bulk of crude nuts now from Africa. And nevertheless the raw materials do not suffice, some businessmen closed the enterprises, throwing out workers on street.

The staff Government has nationalised 34 staying idle factories on which it has been occupied before 34 thousand workers. At the enterprises working conditions have improved, the working day is reduced, social insurance is entered. For children of working women a day nursery is created.