Up in arms against the attitude of Bokaro Steel Plant’s (BSL) management, its retired employees today came out on the road and held strong protests under the banner of Rashtravadi Ispat Majdoor Sangh (RIMS).
Protesting against the management’s decision of 10 per cent hike in rent after every 11 months irked retired employees demonstrated against the authority and demanded immediate rollback of this decision.
Alleging that BSL management is psychologically exploiting its retired employees, they threatened to go for a stir in front of BSL CEO’s residence.
Randhir Singh General Secretary of RIMS alleged that the situation of the city is worsening day-by-day only due to management’s wrong attitude and decisions. “We will hold a strong protested if BSL management did not pay any heed over our demand in next 15 days,” he added.
Singh said that their demands include, an immediate rollback of the decision of hike in rent on every eleven months, to extend OPD (medical facility) facility under mediclaim at Bokaro General Hospital (BGH), immediate release of the premium amount to the Insurance company, immediate maintenance of damaged quarters of each and every sector of the township, repairing of road from BGH to Basanti More and arrangement of the street light on the road, ground floor houses to the ill retired employees.
Apart from others, US Gupta, Ramji Saw, MP Singh, Ramayan Sharma, SD Mandal, Tulsi Mistri, R Giri, B Prasad, BB Singh, M Prasad, RN Ojha were present there.
Meanwhile, demanding jobs at Bokaro Steel Plant hundreds of dependents of the dead employees of BSL held a meeting at the two-tank garden. They also threatened to hold a strong protest if the management denied to provided them permanent jobs at the plant, Neeraj Kumar a member of their organization.
“Our parents died while serving the plant. We are helpless now; management cannot turn a blind eye,” said Rajesh.
Although 428 were provided jobs before 1995, but after 95, management was selective in providing jobs to the dependents and very few were got the job, alleged Bashidhar.
“We will step up our protest till our demand met,” he added.