Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) is adding more staff to the site of its two key projects in Kochi: the foreign naval repair facility of Rs 970 crore (ISRF) and Rs 1730 crore new dry dock, in a move to carry paint speed before Covid-19 days and recover lost time. “Both projects at this level require a lot of paintings. In the field, we had over six hundred people working on each of the two projects. 200. We are now in the process of reducing it to 350-400 levels,” Madhu S Nair, president and executive leader of CSL, told TNIE Madhu S Nair.
He said the seven-day quarantine rule had also helped increase the number of staff at the sites. “Previously, contractors had to devote a lot of cash to bring staff back on special buses, then stay less than 14 days and then review them. “, Nair said. However, due to the recent outbreak of Covid-19 cases, migrant staff are not comfortable returning to Kerala,” he said.
Although 70% of ISRF’s work, which is taking a position on a 40-acre leased plot at Cochin Port on Willingdon Island, was completed, the allocation is delayed for one year. The allocation will not be handled until December 2021 compared to The planned release in December 2020. La labor shortage after the closure of Covid-19 is just an explanation of the delay in the allocation.