Says demand for wage revision, benefits justified,
Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, June 12: Potka MLA Menka Sardar joined hands with the agitating workers of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) on the third day of their agitation.
Terming the demand for wage revision and other service related benefits raised by the workers as justified, Sardar said she was with the over 4000 workers and their families despite all odds.
Sardar, who was accompanied by Zila Parishad vice president Rajkumar Singh, sat with the workers before Turamdih Uranium Project and spoke to Chief Minister Raghubar Das, East Singhbhum Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar and UCIL authorities. She said the company officials and district authorities had assured to resolve the issue by holding a meeting with the representatives of workers.
Meanwhile, UCIL CMD CK Asnani reached Jadugora all the way from Mumbai via Ranchi and headed for the agitation site in Turamdih to hold a dialogue with the workers.
UCIL workers went on an indefinite strike by holding a sit-in 140 metres deep in the Turamih Mines to demand wage revision which they claim has been pending for a long time.
Members of all four labour unions of UCIL refused to give in to the call for resumption of work by the PSU officials and declared that they would continue the agitation indefinitely till their demands were fulfilled.
