The Hindu Business Line : ‘Vizag port trust, dock labour board merger likely soon’

The proposed merger of the Visakhapatnam Dock Labour Board and the Visakhapatnam Port Trust (VPT), pending for more than 15 years, is likely to be achieved soon, according to Mr V.V. Rama Rao, General Secretary of the Port, Dock, and Waterfront Workers’ Federation of India (AITUC).

At a press meet here recently, Mr Rama Rao, also a trustee of the Visakhapatnam port, said the Trust Chairman had submitted a draft scheme in March 2007 for the merger and the Union Ministry of Shipping had approved it. A sub-committee was constituted to examine the financial implications and terms of settlement.

Furthermore, he said, the Visakhapatnam Dock Labour Board had also approved, at the special board meeting held on June 30, the draft memorandum of settlement and it was sent to the ministry for approval. “The ground has been prepared for the merger and we hope it will come about soon,” he said.

He said the Visakhapatnam port trust would be completing 75 years on October 7 and “it would be nice if the merger could be completed by then”.

Mr Rama Rao, who said that his federation was representing 85 per cent of the workforce in the port, said his union had taken up the demand for regularisation of the private pool workers, as was done in Tuticorin, New Mangalore and Paradip ports and auditing of the accounts of the pool.

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