Dimapur, August 28 (MExN): The Workers Union, Nagaland Pulp & Papers Company Limited (NPPC Ltd.), Paper Nagar, in Tuli, has drawn attention to their “grievances which has been lying unattended” and demanded “immediate relief”. The Workers Union are demanding implementation of the 6th Pay Commission, implementation of earned leave of 300 days with encashment facility and to increase the age of superannuation from the existing 58 years to 60 years as followed in all the HPCs.
The Union also insisting on revision of the pay scale of 11 casual employees from the 1987 pay scale to the 1997 pay scale, and to immediately discontinue the “needless action” taken on one worker, Mrs. Sikha Guha, “so as to maintain cordial relation with the workers and the management”.
The demands were laid down during a joint meeting between the Workers Union, NPPC Ltd., Paper Nagar, Tuli, and the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), Pradesh bench, Nagaland, held on August 19. The meeting extensively dwelt on varied pertinent issues and resolved to make an appeal for the early revival of NPPC Ltd.
M Shami Angh, the vice president of INTUC, informed in a press statement that the Board for Industrial and Finance Reconstruction (BIFR) had approved on May 29, 2007, to complete the revival of NPPC Ltd. within a timeframe of 27 months, with “total cost of revival of Rs.552.44 crores”. However, he pointed out, despite the lapse of more than 25 months “no work for revival can be seen on the working platform”. In this regard, the joint meeting made an earnest appeal to all in concern to expedite the revival of NPPC Ltd., at the earliest.
“Some of the management of NPPC Ltd. is involved in hampering the early revival of NPPC Ltd.,” Angh lamented. He, therefore, requested the concerned higher authorities to immediately look into the issue of such “erring official” in order to pave way for the early revival of NPPC Ltd.
The meeting was attended by representatives from INTUC, Workers Union NPPC Ltd. president K Imlitemjen Jamir, vice president Sentimongba, general secretary R N Sharma, assistant general secretary M N Saikia, and treasurer R K Singh.
