About 100 job aspirants have been holding indefinite fast for last four days seeking regular jobs at Damodar Valley Corporation, Bokaro thermal. The protesters are holding indefinite relay hunger strike under the banner of the DVC Displaced and Local Coordination Committee since January 27th , demanding jobs in power plant, DVC, Bokaro thermal.
Raising slogans against the DVC management, the protesters, residents of different villages including Govindpur, Swang Nurunnahar, Nayabasti, Rajabazar and Patwa basti, reiterated their demands and warned that in case their demands were not met soon, they would intensify their stir.
Addressing the protesters, Coordination, leaders Manzoor Ansari, Dineshwar Mandal, Karim Ansari, Jitendra Kumar and others said it seems that the DVC management was not serious about the demands of the displaced persons had been regularized so far.
The BTPS management was running away after giving the time of meetings. As a result, villagers were perturbed over the apathetic attitude of the DVC management over their demands.
The protest, which entered its 4th day on Thursday has been going on in front of the power plant gate and a stone's throw of the CISF Dy commandant office.
DVC, Dy manager Niraj Sinha said that if the list of all 85 displaced villagers that has been sent to DVC headquarters, Kolkata, is approved, the local management will do proper action after getting guidelines of DVC headquarters.
