Only 2,385 of 30K units registered in Panipat

Mukesh Tandon

Tribune News Service

Panipat, September 16

Hundreds of industries in ‘Textile City’ are operational without any registration. An RTI query revealed that only 2,385 industries here are registered with the Labour Department.

Besides, only 525 industries are registered under Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB).

Advocate Vaibhav Deswal had sought information on various points including registration of factories, registered labourers and others from the Labour Department.

Deswal said that the department in its reply said that only 2,385 industries have been registered on the portal of the Haryana Labour Department, Chandigarh. Besides, only 660 factories have approved building plans, he added.

Meanwhile, only 1,16,797 labourers are registered on the portal of Haryana Industrial Safety and Health Department, he said.

“I had also sought information regarding deaths of labourers in factories in which the Industrial Health and Safety Department replied that only 54 labourers died in factories due to industrial accidents,” Deswal said.

Over four lakh labourers from Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are working in around 30,000 industries here, he added.

He said Panipat was famous globally for its textile and handloom products but labour laws were not implemented here properly.

The HSPCB in its reply said that only 523 industries had valid consent to operate in Panipat. Of these, 342 industrial units are in red category; 158 in orange and only 25 industries in green category.