Eflu erupts after death of worker
Police arrests students, contract workers
The English and Foreign Languages University turned chaotic when police lathi-charged students and contract workers, protesting the death of a construction supervisor who died after falling from a building on the campus. They arrested six students and five workers. The arrested were still in police custody till late Monday evening.
Students and Grade IV employees had staged a protest with the body of the deceased, M. Narsinga Rao, 44, in front of the administrative building when they were lathi-charged and arrested, leading to tension in the campus.
Narsinga Rao was a resident of Nacharam and was engaged by Indian Security Force, a manpower agency, as a contract supervisor on the EFLU campus.
On Monday, at around 9 a.m, Narsinga was supervising his workforce, engaged in making necessary seating arrangements for students, as exams were to be held the same day.
“He was standing on the parapet wall and instructing workers on the ground floor. While bending down a little, he lost his balance and fell down,” said S.L. Padma, president of the Progressive Contract and Casual Worker’s Union, Hyderabad.
Narsinga was shifted to Gandhi hospital in the campus where he died.
“We are protesting the lack of safety measures for the workforce on the part of the management.”
She demanded that the university management grant an ex-gratia of `10 lakh to the deceased’s family and a job to his wife, as he had died on duty.