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169 Jobless victims of closed Tobacco Plant staged protest
TIWN May 29, 2018
169 Jobless victims of closed Tobacco Plant staged protest
PHOTO : Jobless victims of closed Tobacco staged protest. TIWN Pic May 29

AGARTALA, May 29 (TIWN): Jobless victims of closed tobacco company have once again come in protest on Tuesday demanding alternative jobs for them from the govt of Tripura.

The protest was staged after ‘Dharamapal-Satyapal’ tobacco company at Agartala AD Nagar had been suddenly closed by the authority on May 13 after two decades of continuous business here.

The agitated workers who have been working in this company for long 18-19 years have gheroaed the Labour Commissioner twice. A meeting was called by the Labour Commissioner where both owner and the workers were asked to remain present. The owner skipped the meeting called by the Labour Commissioner but no action has been taken against the owner yet.

Today once again the workers have come in protest demanding justice and alternative livelihood for them.

The local authority of the company Pramod Sharma on May 13 dictated the security guard to lock the company and on the next day the workers found a paper pasted on the door that ‘Company closed’.

This incident has left a huge numbers of poor families helpless, jobless.

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