ARUN PRASATH

CHENNAI: India’s employment crisis is rooted in the absence of a coherent national industrial policy, Santosh Mehrotra, development economist and former Planning Commission adviser, said recently, arguing that the country was witnessing a “structural retrogression” pushing millions back into agriculture instead of creating jobs in manufacturing and other non-farm sectors.

CHENNAI: The temporary closure of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation’s (MTC) senior citizen free bus token distribution counter at Alandur depot due to revamp works has left many elderly residents from Nanganallur and surrounding neighbourhoods travelling longer distances to collect their travel pass. Senior citizens’ associations are seeking a temporary collection counter in Nanganallur to ease their woes.

CHENNAI: Even seven days after the ammonia gas leak at the Tiruvallur seafood processing facility, workers from Jharkhand and Assam continue to remain at a temporary relief camp with no official word on the condition of their relatives or when they will be allowed to leave. Currently, the death toll is 16. Sixty-two workers from Odisha were sent back home on Friday, which, according to the workers, was 'against their will' as their kin were still at hospitals.