CITU leaders demand immediate payment of pending salaries at Visakhapatnam Steel Plant
The Hindu
CITU leaders demand immediate payment of pending salaries at RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant amid privatisation concerns.
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) State General Secretary Ch. Narasinga Rao and Visakhapatnam District Committee president and General Secretary K.M. Srinivasa Rao and R.K.S.V. Kumar respectively have demanded immediate payment of pending salaries of employees and contract workers by the RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant management.
They said that the management has not paid salaries for the last three months. Almost all RINL workers have been spending sleepless nights due to the non-payment of their wages, they alleged.
Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Mr. Rao said that the RINL management has a fund of ₹506 crore to lay off about 1,600 employees under the voluntary retirement scheme, but they do not have the money to pay salaries. He alleged that about 5,000 people have lost their jobs and livelihood in the last five years of the steel plant due to the policies and strategies taken by the plant management as per the directives of the Union government.
He said that the plant management is trying to lay off the existing employees with the intention of hiring new staff at lower salaries as part of the privatisation drive. Every steel plant in the country has its own iron ore mines, except RINL, and the government is not doing anything for them so far, he said.
The Union government has announced a revival package of ₹11,440 crore, but there is no mention of the package for workers’ salaries, nor for the purchase of raw material or coking coal. This revision package has no use for the steel plant except to brag about themselves. With this revival package, it is impossible to restart the plant and run it profitably, he said. The revival package is being used to clear debts but it is not being used to operationalise the plant, he alleged.
“Certainly, the Centre’s aim is to privatise the plant in the next three months by saying that the plant is not profitable even after the revival package,” Mr. Rao said.
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