Workers scale protests against NMDC's divestment plan for Nagarnaar unit

Protestors are demanding a public sector joint venture

Employees of the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) intensified their protests against the strategic divestment of the company’s Nagarnaar steel plant in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar district.

NMDC, which is the country’s largest producer and exporter of iron-ore, had set up a steel plant with a capacity of 3 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) in Nagarnaar, near Jagdalpur. Of the three mechanised iron-ore mines owned by the NMDC, two are located in the Dantewada district and share a major proportion of company’s total output. The two units used to feed the Nagarnaar steel plant. 

A day-long strike was observed in the mines