10,000 labourers will be out of work due to SAARC
About 10,000 persons depending on day labour work in Colombo business district face job losses, due to SAARC security measures, reports Tamil daily Thinakkural, published from Colombo.
Thinakkural report further says:
Day labourers fully rely on these jobs for daily survival of their families.
They perform manual duties in loading and or unloading - carrying on their head and shoulders and by way of pulling carts loaded with merchandise for distribution.
They will not be able perform their tasks when the SAARC is in session in Colombo.
The workers distribute items throughout Colombo area and work on transporting goods to and from other parts of the country, on any given day in the main business hub of the city, Pettah.
Daily paid labourers, known as “Nattammais” in Tamil [pic:HA]
The security measures in place for the SAARC will not permit anyone without “passes” to the declared high security zone that includes the centre of business activity in Colombo, Fort and Pettah.
Due to these special high security measures, all business activity – in Fort and Pettah are expected to come to a standstill, when SAARC is in session later this month in Sri Lanka.
