A seven-day blockade was called off and production was restored at Electrosteel Steels ltd’s (ESl) green field project at Siyaljori in Bokaro district after a positive tripartite talks on Saturday afternoon
The tripartite talks continued for over 12 hours on Friday night between plant management, political leaders and administrative officials concluded with a positive notes, said Dr Sanjay Singh, SDO Chas. ESl management is ready to provide 70 per cent (70%) job opportunity to the locals (Chas and Chandankiyari) with new vacancies, Singh said. “Plant management given their consent to square-off all the cases which was filed against the villagers, earliest,” he added.
Disputes has been settled, a new committee was also set up for earliest redressal of grievances among the raiyatts and management, informed Rohit Chandra Singh PRO of ESl. With our new vacancies about 70 per cent job opportunities would be provided to the locals (according to their qualifications), he said. “Now we are on move to restore production and right now it’s difficult to estimate the actual loss; we are accessing and it might be take few days to calculate”, added Rohit and expressed his gratitude towards the administrative officials, villagers and members of the tripartite committee to solve the issues.
Demanding rights for the raiyatts Nirsa MlA, Arup Chatterjee along with JMM leaders and party workers launched blocked and stage dharna before ESl’s gate. Protesters prevented entry and exit of the employees. About 5,000 employees were stopped to attend the plant during seven day blockade causing an estimated loss of Rs 70 crore to the ESl, sources said.