Assam Assembly Elections | 2 mills deepen divide in poll-bound Assam
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BJP guarantees to revive Nagaon Paper Mill in Brahmaputra Valley however not closed Cachar mill in Barak Valley
Two papers mills of the Hindustan Paper Corporation (HPC) had as soon as united Assam’s culturally disparate Brahmaputra and Barak Valleys industrially. The unity continued in the demise of those mills since 2017, however Mandate 2021 seems to have deepened the divide between the valleys.
The Nagaon Paper Mill, about 70 km east of Guwahati and the Cachar Paper Mill, about 30 km from Barak Valley’s most important city Silchar, weren’t simply two of Asia’s largest paper vegetation. They have been the fulcrums round which two cities — Jagiroad in Morigaon district and Panchgram in Hailakandi district — grew and prospered.
Jagiroad has been extra lucky due to connectivity; it reaps different advantages of being positioned on Asian Highway 1. Panchgram has been diminished nearly to a ghost city.
But the 2,400 staff of each have been struggling equally with out pay since January 2017 (Cachar Mill) and March 2017 (Nagaon Mill). So have some 4 lakh individuals who have been straight and not directly been depending on the 2 mills.
More than 80 staff have died too, a lot of them with out cash for remedy, some on account of hunger.
The Joint Action Committee of Recognised Unions (JACRU) of the 2 mills have been sad with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for failing to stay as much as their 2016 promise — to infuse recent life into the 2 mills.
“Contrary to the PM’s call for atmanirbhar, India has been importing paper from China, Indonesia, Bangladesh at high prices. If that were not enough, the government siphoned off ₹4,141-crore from 2014-2018 meant for the mills besides ₹107 crore of the employees’ provident fund money,” JAKRU president Manobendra Chakraborty instructed The Puucho.
‘Didn’t spare the dying’
What has angered the workers of the Cachar Mill is the BJP’s manifesto promising to revive solely the Nagaon Mill and clear the arrears of the workers there. “They have not even spared the dying employees of two sick mills by playing on the divide between the two valleys,” he mentioned.
The Nagaon Mill staff will not be amused too. (*2*) JACRU’s Nagaon Mill chief Ananda Bordoloi mentioned.
The BJP’s Algapur candidate Moon Swarnakar has vowed to struggle for the Cachar Mill’s revival if voted. The JACRU says the promise to wrest the seat from the All India United Democratic Front’s Nijam Uddin Choudhury sounds hole.
The BJP’s Jagiroad MLA Pijush Hazarika has additionally promised the Nagaon Mill’s revival to maintain Congress rival Swapan Kumar Mandal at bay. Both constituencies go to the polls in the second section on April 1.
Letter to Rahul
On March 30, the JACRU leaders despatched a letter to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi pledging their assist to the Mahajot or grand alliance, whose constituents embrace three Left Front events. The cause: the Kerala authorities’s step to run the Kottayam Paper Mill of Hindustan Newsprint Limited, a subsidiary of HPC.
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