The State Government has not conducted any survey to know the number of people going to other States in search of work but gathers information on migrant labourers only through licenced worker-contractors.
labour and Employees State Insurance Minister Prafulla Kumar Mallick informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of Congress MlA Bhujabal Majhi on Friday.
The Minister said that a total of 1,01,012 labourers from different districts were given permission through 1975 licenced contractors to go outside States for work in 2016. They include highest of 67,137 workers from Balangir district followed by 13,605 from Nuapara, 6827 from Sambalpur, , 5026 from Ganjam, 3,173 from Puri and 1153 from Nayagarh district.
However, 13 districts Baleswar, Bargarh, Bhadrak, Deogarh, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Kendrapada, Khordha, Koraput, Rayagada, Subarnapur, Sundargrh and Talcher area of Angul distort was in the list had no workers in the list, according to the information.
The Minister informed that 41.79 per cent of the State’s population belong to workers’ class. So far 17,95,145 construction workers have been registered under the Odisha Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board by now. Of them, 6,99,412 are being provided assistances on behalf of the board.