Kanpur: Several workers of Lal Imli, raising slogans against the authorities, staged a protest in front of the residence of BJP MLA Surendra Maithani in Pandu Nagar on Tuesday over non-payment of salary for the past 36 months.
Ajay Singh, a senior office-bearer of Lal Imli Mill Employees’ Union said that nearly 400 workers of the mill have not been paid their salaries for the last three years whie more than 40 mill workers have died in the last couple of years.
Lal Imli is owned by British India Corporation Limited (BIC) and is a public sector undertaking (PSU) of the ministry of textiles.
Singh said the mill workers are facing extreme hardships particularly in the ongoing pandemic times as no budgetary allocation has been made for the salaries of the mill workers by the Centre.
“We have been approaching the local representatives with our complaints but none paid heed.
We staged a protest in front of the residence of the local MLA, met him and handed over a memorandum.
We will intensify our stir in the coming days,” he warned.
They later called off their protest after the MLA assured them of forwarding their demands to the authority concerned.