The retrenched staff of Hindustan Motors/Hindustan Motor Finance Corporation Ltd and their loved ones users are waiting for a decision on their upcoming from the DMK govt headed by Main Minister M.K. Stalin.
It has been more than a 7 days because they wound up their indefinite sit-in protest at the Tiruvallur District Collectorate demanding back again their land or a task in PCA Cars India Non-public Ltd.
Automobile maker PCA Cars situated in Tiruvallur is a joint undertaking amongst worldwide automotive maker Stellantis Group and India’s C.K. Birla team.
Hindustan Motors Ltd/Hindustan Motor Finance belonged to the C.K. Birla team.
“We experienced stopped our protest on the assurance specified by the Collector that our problem would be sorted out this 7 days. But no development has been created,” E. Srinivasan, Secretary of the Hindustan Motors Land Providing Farmers Progressive Affiliation, informed IANS.
He also explained the CPI leaders have confident them that they will get up the problem with the Main Minister for a resolution.
On Oct one, the retrenched staff and their loved ones users commenced their indefinite sit-in strike.
The protest was flagged off by CPI MP K. Subbarayan and was wound up late that night.
According to a worker, the point out govt did not want a protest on the day of Gandhi Jayanti –October two.
The staff were being before employed by Hindustan Motors Ltd/Hindustan Motor Finance Corporation at its Tiruvallur auto plant rolling out Japanese Mitsubishi Motors Corporation’s types like Lancer, Pajero and also underneath contract manufacturing deal for Isuzu Motors MU seven design.
Later about one hundred seventy five permanent staff and more than one hundred fifty contract staff were being retrenched by Hindustan Motor Finance Corporation and the plant was transferred to PCA Cars.
“We were being retrenched regardless of an agreement signed amongst the two joint undertaking associates that the staff will be absorbed by PCA Cars,” H. Ismail, 1 of the retrenched staff whose grandfather’s land was acquired by Hindustan Motors in 1968 experienced informed IANS.
“Dependent on this Personnel Transfer Arrangement, Hindustan Motor Finance Corporation acquired permission from the Tamil Nadu govt to transfer the plant and other belongings to PCA Cars. Submit transfer of belongings, the staff — permanent and on contract — were being despatched out,” Srinivasan explained.
According to Srinivasan, Hindustan Motors acquired about 356 acres of agricultural land in 1968 at Tiruvallur for its earthmoving gear division.
To begin with Hindustan Motors purchased the land instantly from the proprietors. But it was not capable to get the extent it wanted and sought the District Collector’s support. Later the enterprise deposited the land price with the govt treasury and the govt transferred the land to the enterprise, Srinivasan explained.
At that level of time, the District Collector experienced confident that the land proprietors will be employed by the enterprise at its earthmoving gear plant.
Nonetheless, the landowners were being not specified work as promised before and after protest, Hindustan Motors employed eighty two folks — mainly the grandsons of the landowners — in the nineteen eighties.
“After a decade of protests an additional batch of eighty two staff were being employed as trainees in 1997,” Srinivasan explained.
Srinivasan and Ismail explained Hindustan Motors verified the trainee staff only after ten several years.
Hindustan Motors hived off a sizable part of the land for its auto plant to roll out Mitsubishi Motors Corporation’s types like Lancer, Pajero.
And some staff of the Hindustan Motors’ earthmoving gear division were being transferred to the auto plant.
Some several years afterwards, the Indian enterprise transferred the plant to Hindustan Finance Corporation and then to PCA Cars although sending out permanent and contract staff.
Hindustan Motors bought its earthmoving gear division (that created dumpers, loaders and many others) to Caterpillar, US.
Barring the 22 staff whose grandfathers experienced specified their land to the manufacturing facility and some many others, the bulk of the permanent staff experienced agreed to get lump sum compensation from Hindustan Motor Finance Corporation.
“The enterprise experienced deposited the lump sum in our financial institution accounts with no our consent. We wrote to the enterprise, Tamil Nadu govt and also to PCA Cars stressing our desire for work and the amount of money deposited would be taken care of as our regular monthly wages,” Srinivasan experienced explained.
According to Srinivasan, the PCA Cars plant has about a hundred ninety acres of land of which about one hundred fifty acres are vacant.
“We want our land back again so that we can do farming and deal with our households,” Srinivasan explained.
“Our land is there. The previous operator — C.K. Birla team and new operator Stellantis Group — are also there. The auto plant is also rolling out Citroen brand automobiles. Only we are not there. This is not just,” Ismail and Srinivasan experienced explained.
Automobile maker PCA Cars situated in Tiruvallur is a joint undertaking amongst worldwide automotive maker Stellantis Group and India’s C.K. Birla team.