The step-motherly attitude of Paradip Oil Refinery Project authorities has spread large scale resentment among the local land losers and displaced families. They have threatened to hold a dharna in front of the project site on December 28.
local land losers and Displaced Development Front convener Akshay Kumar Swain with the top leaders of six local organizations like president Oil Refinery Contact labors Cooperative Society Manindra Guru, secretary Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers Union Padma lochan Das, president MAA Baidehi Oil Refinery Workers Union Dillip Kumar Behera, secretary Oil Refinery land losers Multi Purpose Cooperative Society Govinda Chandra Samantray, secretary Oil Refinery land losers Association Dhaneswar Samal and Subas Chandra Mohapatra at a Press meet held here charged that the IOCl authorities were regularly neglecting the local land losers and displaced families with regard to any engagement at the Paradip refinery project since 2000.
They demanded immediate fulfilment of a nine-point charter of demands and threatened that in case of any lapse, they would intensify their stir from December 28.