Indian employees at Rampal project protest demanding return to home
Indian employees at Rampal Power Plant in Bagerhat on Sunday staged demonstration again seeking their return to the country amid outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.
A lot more than 400 Indian workers arrived from the power plant project office each morning and gathered at Baburbari crossing on the Khulna-Mongla highway to stage protest there.
When members of law enforcing agencies barred them to move forward, they sit in at the crossing and continued demonstration till 2.00pm.
Later, authorities of power plant project and police officials came to the spot and personnel called off their protest after had a talking with them.
Earlier, the workers staged protest demanding the same point on, may 4.
Workers alleged they are not having the facility to talk to members of the family amid the coronavirus crisis and authorities aren't allowing them to go back in country.
Md Rejaul Karim, deputy director of the project, said, “All communications are halted because of coronavirus pandemic. We'd a discussion with Indian High Commissioner plus they are trying to take the personnel back to the united states.”
District deputy commissioner Md Mamunur Rashid held a crisis ending up in administration officials including superintendent of police Pankaj Chandra Roy to go over the issues associated with Rampal Power Plant.
“Being informed of workers’ protest, we rushed to the location. We will solve the problem in discussion with power plant authorities,” said the DC.
A total of just one 1,802 foreign employees now work at the power plant, of these, 1,344 workers are Indians while 21 Chinese.
