Shimla, Nov. 12 -- Around 2,000 to 3,000 workers engaged in road construction and maintenance in Himachal Pradesh are facing uncertainty over their livelihoods amid the outsourcing of government and Border Roads Organisation (BRO) works to private contractors, prompting the Deepak Project Workers Union (INTUC) to seek urgent intervention from the state and Central governments.

A delegation of the union met Revenue and Tribal Development Minister Jagat Singh Negi in Shimla on Thursday and urged him to take up the issue with the Union Ministry of Defence and BRO authorities, demanding that strategic border roads should not be handed over to private contractors.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, INTUC state vice-president and Deepak...