Eastern India Oil Refinery Workers’ Union (EIORWU) president Santosh Kumar Pattnaik and Eastern India Oil Refinery Contract labour Cooperative Society president Gobinda Chandra Tarai met Union Petroleum Minister Dr M Veerappa Moily here during his recent visit to review the IOCl Paradip Oil Refinery project.
Pattnaik requested the Minister for direct and indirect employment of land losers and displaced families in the refinery area. The Minister gave a patient hearing. Pattnaik and Tarai explained to the Minister how the EIORWU has become a part of building of the project for the last 13 years, maintaining peaceful industrial relations with the project management.
Besides helping its own members, the union is also helping local aged villagers by providing them monthly pensions, giving financial assistance to helpless men, women and physically-handicapped villagers and scholarships to poor students for higher education and development of rural sports, etc.
Dr Moily assured the union leaders to take steps to provide all assistance by his Ministry for benefit of the locals in the refinery.