PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Lalkuan
Several important decisions have been taken in the board meeting of Nainital Dugdh Utpadak Sahakari Sangh Limited (NDUSSL) chaired by the president of the union, Mukesh Bora on Thursday.
It was decided at the meeting that direct recruitment would be done by the State government for the milk producing units and a requisition would be sent to regularise the workers working on contract in the organisation on priority basis.
Bora further informed that a new plant of 1.5 lakh litre capacity being built at a cost of about Rs 80 crore would be inaugurated soon. Besides, an agreement was also reached on the construction of a modern conference hall with a capacity of 1000 people and a new guest house for the milk producers to stay.
The meeting also revealed that a firm associated with the union had not deposited employees’ EPF of over Rs 35 lakh. Also, GST of over one crore paid by the union had not been deposited by the concerned firm on which the board recommended to register an FIR against the firm.
In a major step in the interest of the employees, the board decided to increase the pay scale of the workers in the factory. Now highly skilled workers will get Rs 25,000; skilled workers, Rs 23,000 and semi-skilled workers, Rs 20,000 per month.
