Nagaland issues toll-free no. for pvt sector, youth

DIMAPUR: Nagaland's labour department has launched a toll-free number not only for the workers of the private sector in the state, but also for Naga boys and girls working outside of the state to help them raise their issues and grievances related to employment conditions.

Adviser to the labour, employment, skill development and entrepreneurship department, Moatoshi Longkumer, launched the toll-free number (18003090407) at the labour commissioner's office in Kohima on Friday.

Longkumer said majority of the workers in small-scale industries, business establishments and the construction sector in the state are unorganised and vulnerable to social and economic exploitation due to illiteracy, dispersed nature of operations and processes and lack of proper streamlined institutional back-up.