The Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers’ Union held the International labour Day at its office premises near Zero Point of NH-5 (A) with Jagatsinghpur Zilla Parishad president Devidutta Mohanty as the chief guest and senior journalist Arun Kumar Panda as the chief speaker.
Association chief Santosh Kumar Pattanaik presided over the meeting. Welcome address was given by Padma lochan Das and the secretary’s report was read out by Dillip Kumar Behera.
Pro-Posco leader Nirbhay Samantaray, Niranjan Nayak, Bisambar Tarai and Dhaneswar Samal also addressed the gathering. Some labourers, including women, were felicitated on the occasion for their excellent performances.
President Pattanaik declared that after commissioning the IOCl Refinery Project, the association would give priority to employment of local youths, land losers and displaced family members. “We are giving the monthly company sanction to widows and other helpless women and physical handicapped people and old age people regularly from July 2014,” he said.
Vote of thanks was given by Nursingh Charan Das.