A large number of women of the Paradip-Jagatsinghpur Women Workers’ Union on Wednesday staged a demonstration in front of the Indian Oil Corporation limited (IOCl) Refinery Project demanding fulfilment of their 12-point charter of demands. The agitators led by union adviser Jayanta Kumar Biswal, president Dr Rina Routray and secretary Dukhi lenka also held a protest meeting in front of the gate number four of the refinery.
The demands include proper compensation to land losers, job for at least one member of the land loser families and displaced peoples’ family, 50 per cent reservation for women in job in the refinery, formation of mega green belt around the project, apprentice facility for local ITI and diploma holders, availability of rest sheds, toilets and drinking water at work sites, provision of Rs 300 as minimum wage and houses for women workers with medical facilities, transit house at Cuttack for medical treatment and sanitation drive by IOCl at the nearby villages.