The engineers of NTPC’s Pakri Barwadih coal mines project organised a gate meeting to protest against the delay in their pay revision. The gate meeting took place at Sikri site office and was presided by Ram Uday Sharma. In this meeting the engineers said that due to their efforts and hard labour NTPC has earned name and fame and is counted as a Maharatna company of the country but the government is not taking care of their demands so on the call of their Central organization they are going ahead on the path of agitation.
Sharma said that the engineers of coal project are always with their central organization NEFI and as per the scheduled programme on September 5, they will lodge protest by putting black tag on clothes during the working hour and on September 12 their delegation will take part in the proposed one day dharna programme at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Anil Kumar, SR Pani, Shrikant Sinha, Naresh Kumar, Rama Kant Behra, Kuldeep Bdhara, AK Srivastava, G Kar, Subrat Das and others were also present in the meeting.