Amidst soughting slogans against the Bokaro Steel Plant (BSl) management for their indifferent attitude in providing jobs and compensation to the displaced people, hundreds of the protesters including women launched one day ‘Brikshawas Satyagraha’ (living on tree) on Thursday.
Rising up arms against the management to provide them jobs Nirsa MlA Arup Chatterjee along with AJSU leader Suresh Kumar joined hands with them and
participated in Satyagraha.
Around 10 am, protesters climbed up on a tree near Gandhi Chowak about 100 mts from the BSl’s Administrative Building to draw attention of the management towards their demand. “We will step up our agitation till our demand met”, said lily Jashinta Jojo president of the displaced youth. She also threaten to hold a massive demonstration.
“Company, at the time of acquiring their lands to set up plant, had promised to provide jobs to 24,000 identified displaced people”, said Bhola Thakur. Its worth mentioning that most of the displaced groups are demanding from BSl to provide jobs in bulk while the BSl management has declared that it has already provided jobs to about 16,000 displaced people earlier.