The retrenched workers of Talabira mines agitated on Friday in front of the Collectorate here and gave a memorandum urging their reemployment in the company. The aggrieved workers said that they were given jobs as a rehabilitation measure for losing their hearths and homes for setting up the Talabira mines. Earlier also, 42 drivers and 10 other workers were disengaged. When the workers opposed such a direction, cases were booked against them and 15 of them were sent to judicial custody.
Unable to maintain their families without job, the workers were facing much difficulties. In the absence of the district Collector, a senior officer received the memorandum and assured to hand over the same to the Collector.
The workers made it clear that if they were not given justice, they will intensify their agitation ahead.