Around 200 contractors under the banner of the Nikhila Odisha Thikadar Mahasangha would march to Bhubaneswar to hand over a memorandum to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
They would leave on November 25 and meet Patnaik with their 10-point of charter of demands. In an emergency meeting held here on Wednesday, the Mahasangha unanimously brought a resolution on their demands and memorandum to CM on their problems. If their demands were ignored, they would go for cease work strike, it was decided.
The demands include price fixation of mining materials used in construction works, labourer wage fixation, review of public notice on royalty, abolition of 14.99 per cent cut in the bidding process, introduction of data book of Central Government in the State, re-operation of 2014 circulator and return of security money to bidders through credit certificates, etc.
The contractors operating in Puri, Satyabadi, Brahmagiri and Krusnaprasad zones who met here said they were facing huge losses in the existing bidding process. They also demanded the Government to review and roll back its order on deposit of royalty receipt by the bidders.