Dunlop Sahaganj Unit To Reopen On Mar 11: Shukla

Dunlop India Ltd (DIL) president, Murli Dhar Shukla, yesterday met West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu and confirmed that the Sahaganj factory in West Bengal will be re-opened on March 11, 2000.

"I met the Chief Minister and conveyed that we are going ahead with our plan and there is no double thinking on re-opening Sahaganj on March 11," Shukla said.

The Chief Minister had asked to advance the date of re-opening, to which Shukla said that this was not possible due to the technical nature of the problem and the time needed to put a technical team in place for the purpose.

 

Shukla will meet the representatives of the Citu-affiliated Dunlop Workers' Union (DWU) and the Intuc-affiliated Dunlop Rubber Factory Labour Union today at the head office to decide on the details of a `plan realignment' to earlier holding operations.

Shukla had already instructed critical members of the engineering and marketing team to return to Calcutta from Chennai for work on a realigned plan.

In a another development, the All India Dunlop Employees Federation(AIDEF), a 500 strong body of employees submitted a letter to the DIL management calling for lifting the suspension of work order at various depots, including the head office and Calcutta district "and pay the arrears as per the BIFR's directives," said Aniruddha Sengupta, AIDEF general secretary.