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| June 1, 2010 | Langur earns 10,000 per month in Kanpur! | | Kanpur: A simian in Kanpur city of Uttar Pradesh has become a major draw for local public here, as it has been deployed to guard offices and locals in the neighbourhood. It so happened that officials of Employee's State Insurance
Corporation (ESIC) here were perturbed by a herd of monekys. Having failed to
find a solution for the everyday problem, they decided to employ a langur, a special
breed of monkey. The langur has been assigned the responsibility to protect the employees
and residents of the vicinity. Stating the reason for taking the service of a
langur, ESIC's Deputy Director Prakash Chandra Sharma said: "If a langur is on
the campus, then the other monkeys get scared of it and they run away leaving
the area." Local residents say that the monkeys' menace had become an everyday
headache. "The other monkeys had terrified the people in the colony, office. They
used to tear the files in the office...first there was a grill put up to protect
the people. But they still managed to tear the files and horrified the children
in the locality so much that they were scared to even come out of their houses,"
says Ram Prakash, an employee and resident. The 'new employee' of the Corporation
sits at the entrance gate of the campus like other security personnel and ensures
that the place remains free of monkeys. Well, for its services, the langur's owner
pockets Rs.10,000 a month! | |
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