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Kolkata/Haldia: the HDC authorities have been asking to fill up the position and also recruit pilots, “the highest authority in the KoPT sat on the file for more than a year.”
“Now that it has been forwarded to the shipping ministry, the ministry is not bothering to clear it,” Burman said.
Top notch KoPT officials said there has been continuous pressures from the shipping ministry to cut down on cost and the ministry has not been apprising the proposal of fresh recruitment though it has hampered operations.
In fact, KoPT has rationalised its manpower from a level of 17,154 in 1998-1999 to 10,000 in 2008-09, of which Haldia has only 3000 at present.
Officials said for political reasons, the ministry wants KoPT business to go to some other ports but KoPT has to serve the entire east, northeast, Nepal and Bhutan and no other port is actually viable for cargoes from and to these places. ...
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