HPC casual workers on indefinite strike

Staging a dharna and sit-in demonstration in front of the administration building of the HPC, the casual workers union members demanded revised remuneration as announced by the Union Labour department.

The Gauhati High Court had three months ago issued an order for the HPC to pay the revised remuneration to the causal workers, the union's general secretary Atul Chandra Kalita told reporters.

The HPC authority were yet to implement the revised remuneration with the workers receiving payments less than the MGNREGA rate, Kalita asserted.

The non-cooperation by the workers had partially affected the working of the mill at Jagiroad in central Assam's Morigaon district, he claimed.