Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS Ltd), started in 1925 by eminent social reformer Sri Guru Vagbadananda in a remote hamlet Uralungal, near Vatakara in Kozhikode District, Kerala, as a novel mass movement against the anarchies prevalent in those days, under the banner “Admavidhya Sangham” has grown today as a name synonymous with quality, workmanship, precision and efficiency in civil works especially in roads, buildings & bridges and flyovers in north Kerala.
This union of skilled workers, who lost their jobs due to their social reforming activities against superstitions and partisan practices during 1920s and 30s, formed for solving their unemployment played a crucial role in developing infrastructure in the independent India. By religiously following its culture of social harmony and selfless service that bonded the initial members of the union, ULCCS Ltd had grown as the biggest Labour Contract Society by providing direct employment to over 2000 workers from rural areas and also supporting 5000 families indirectly.
Recently, there is a phenomenal shift in the category of job seekers from uneducated and unskilled to educated and skilled ones. To meet the objective of employment generation for such class of job seekers, who constitute the majority, the society realizes that it has to shift from its operations of construction works to large scale skilled employment generating initiatives like IT Parks. Apart from this, the Government has firm conviction that the involvement of the society as a strategic developer of this prestigious venture would fasten the pace of development of the Malabar Region in several folds.
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