Villagers demand reopening of Sterlite plant
The Hindu
‘We have been left unemployed and without benefit of schemes’
Residents from villages around here and two areas of the coastal town on Monday submitted a petition at the Collectorate seeking the Collector’s intervention in reopening Sterlite Copper as the plant’s closure had left them unemployed besides denying them the benefit of welfare schemes. Residents from Saaminaththam, Pudur Pandiyapuram, Madaththur, Silverpuram, Balaiyapuram, Subramaniyapuram, Fatima Nagar and Our Lady of Snows Basilica came to the Collectorate separately on and submitted petition seeking the reopening of the plant that remained sealed since May 2018 following protests that witnessed the killing of 13 persons in police firing.More Related News
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