Members of the Displaced and Affected Committee of the Ordnance Factory, Badmal, on Monday held a rally in the town demanding fulfilment of their eight-point charter of demands.
The demands included jobs for displaced families, cancellation of recruitment held in September in view of irregularities noticed in examination and leakages of questions, immediate employment to 634 persons and other left out families, appointment of near and dear ones after the death of employees on compassionate ground, training to unemployed youths and termination of fake employees, who have got appointment using forged residential certificates.
Among others, noted environmentalist Prafulla Samantara, Brajakishore Singh Bhoi, trade union leader Promod Mishra, Manoranjan Sahu and G Bagarti addressed the rally.
However, a media reporter and a camera man were misbehaved while they were covering the rally. They lodged a complaint at the Town police station and demanded arrest of culprits.Many leaders expressed regrets over the incident and apologised for the misbehaviour meted out to mediapersons.
later, a representative of the agitators submitted a memorandum, addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, before the district administration.