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JK Paper Mill in Jaykaypur of Rayagada”s contractual labourers launched an indefinite cease work agitation

Rayagada:24/8/18: Production has come to halt at the JK Paper Mill in Jaykaypur of Rayagada district after contractual labourers launched an indefinite cease work agitation today closing all the gates.

Over 3,000 contractual workers led by JK Paper Mill Employees Union and Contractual Workers’ Union under the banner of CITU District Committed came together with their 14-point charter of demands today and sat on dharna in front of the main gate.

The agitating workers locked all the gates and resorted to cease work starting from 6 am in the morning.

District administration has deployed 5 platoons police force in the plant premises to avoid any untoward situation.

The workers resorted to the protest after a talk between labour leaders and plant authorities at the Rayagada Sub-Collector’s office remained inconclusive yesterday.

The agitating workers are demanding pay hike and regularisation of their jobs since long.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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