ITANAGAR, Jan 6: Frustrated with NEEPCO's apathetic attitude towards the long-overdue demand to regularize 48 contractual (technical) employees, the Pare Project Land Affected Welfare Committee has announced a 36-hour shutdown around the project site on January 9-10.
The bandh has been called after the expiry of its 20-day ultimatum served on November 11 last year. Earlier, the affected families staged various sit-ins to pressurize the concerned authority. The bandh will be effective from January 9 at 5 am to January10 till 5 pm with total closure of all major NEEPCO establishments which includes Doimukh Head of Project (HoP) office, Sopo Powerhouse, and Jampa dam site area. 
Making this announcement at a press conference today, GS, PPLAWC, Bengia Tada alleged that NEEPCO continued to ignore their demands to regularize the said contractual employees as promised by them before the commencement of the project.“Years have passed, they have progressed, but we have been abandoned and not yet seen any benefit from our sacrifices,” said Tada, adding that prior to starting of the project, NEEPCO agreed to give regular jobs to these 48 youths from the land donors who received ITI training. “Much to our dismay, NEEPCO backtracked from its promise and instead of giving regular appointments, these  youths were given a two-year service contract which was later extended for another year and would expire this January,” he said. This time they want complete regularization of all employees and no further extension of the current contractual service will be accepted, Tada added.
 The committee further said that they will further intensify the agitation with doubled vigour till their demands were met.
Meanwhile, it further stated that ambulances, medical services, media vehicles, milk vans, magistrates on duty and police would be kept out of purview of the bandh.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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