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TMC, DYFI stages rally demanding jobs for local youth

The Statesman Siliguri

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March 30, 2025

The DYFI, youth wing of the CPI-M staged a rally demanding employment opportunities of local jobless people and contractors in the modernisation project work of IISCO steel plant in Burnpur, on the same day Trinamul Congress councillors of Asansol Municipal Corporation also agitated on the same issue and submitted a memorandum to the company management.

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From Bharati Bhawan to Tunnel Gate, the rally was organised in Burnpur town by the DYFI. Later, a meeting was organised in the Tunnel Gate where senior trade union leaders spoke.

Partha Mukherjee, state committee member of CPI-M said that there will be a massive Rs 36,000-crore modernisation and expansion of IISCO steel plant (ISP) in Burnpur by Sail. The modernisation will take place in phases.

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