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Statue of Unity: Guj govt to give priority to locals, tribals affected by project

Rajpipala, Nov 3 (UNI) According to Narmada Collector RS Ninama, the Gujarat government's priority is focused towards the locals and members, as well as people in jobs and other employment opportunities in and around the 'Statue of Unity' project, which has brought the central Gujarat district of Narmada and its Kevadia town along with the adjoining areas on the world tourism map, Collector R S Ninama said here.
Ninama informed that over a hundred job opportunities were available in the SoU premises, over 200 had already been engaged in the valley of flowers project, while adding that the company looking into the cleaning of Rashtrapati bhavan had also been engaged in the SoU project and had employed 100 people with an additional 100 people set to be absorbed soon.
"With the completion of the construction of the world's tallest statue, a total of 4000 people engaged in this project have become jobless, out of whom around 1000 are locals. The construction phase needed a large number of workers whereas now only the maintenance bit remains. The government has decided to engage the maximum project affected people, a list of whose family members has been sought from the concerned authorities while the private companies taking up various works here would be instructed to employ them," he told UNI.
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