Recently Mr.Kochouseph Chittilappilly of V Guard who is perhaps the only successful entrepreneur in Kerala who made it from rags to riches mainly operating in Kerala has shown courage to get in side a truck to unload materials to his godown.All TV channels and newspapers carried the story.
But this menace of loading unloading goondaism is silently suffered by helpless people of Kerala for years together.There are people sitting in almost all junctions of even villages in Kerala chit chatting sometimes wearing a particular colour shirt calling themselves as loading unloading people.They are the most lazy people who are protected by political parties in Kerala to do very little work and demand and threaten helpless unorganized people to pay them whatever they demand naturally very high amounts in comparison to what they do.
There are workers employed by commercial establishments,manufacturing units to carry out normal work.But if some material will have to be loaded or unloaded to a vehicle these workers working in that commercial activity unit cannot or should not do such loading or unloading.That particular portion of work is the birth right of those uniformed people simply chit chatting in junctions.Even if the skilled workers in the unit of production/trade do the loading/unloading due to extra care required or easiness of operation ,these bunch of lazy people will have to be paid whatever they demand, however high or unreasonable their demand.Such money extracted forcefully is given a name in Kerala called,”Nokku Kooly”(meaning wages for watching the work).Sometimes they collect exorbitant money even without watching!
Like others I also pay such unreasonable money to these people wherever we construct houses in Kerala.In southern areas like Ranny,Chengannur these people are some how absent .In Alleppey district of Kerala they create havoc and ensure that no economic activity survives for long.They would prefer no business,no manufacturing or construction rather than scale down their unreasonable demands.Funniest part of the story is that almost all political leaders in Kerala declare quite often that there is no Nokku kooly in Kerala!Even in cases where they really do the loading unloading there is in fact no need for their services as workers paid for the day must be working in that establishment and they can do the work as part of their work without demanding such exorbitant wages.
Once I asked one of these chaps why they are collecting Nokku Kooly when their leaders are saying that no Nokku kooly should be collected.He replied like this-“Those leaders loot in crores and they never give us even a share of that.Then what right they have for telling us not to collect Nokku Kooly?”
Mr.Chittilappilly has at least made an attempt to raise his voice against this injustice done to people of Kerala by organized goondas protected by political parties.But people like you and me are not willing to raise our voice against such barbarian injustice done to us by these lazy fellows who do not want to work like others and earn money by threatening ,protected by politicians of Kerala
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