RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec.10: The Heavy Industries Ministry is likely to discuss the issue plaguing the ‘Mother of Industries’, Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), on Monday.
Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth informed this while talking to Lagatar24.com over the phone from New Delhi after the Lok Sabha session today.
“Heavy industries secretary Alok Goyal is on leave till December 12. After he joins, further development can be shared in the matter,” Seth said.
Asked whether the union government is intended to save HEC or planning otherwise, Seth said the union government is intentional to save HEC.
“HEC is 100 percent safe. I had a talk on this matter today with Union Heavy Industry Minister (Mahendra Nath Pandey). No one should think otherwise. Acting CMD visited HEC on Thursday. He will submit his report and further action will be taken in the light of that report,” Seth said.
In the meantime, a strike taking demand of due salary continued in HEC on the ninth consecutive day. Acting CMD, Nalin Singhal, had returned to Delhi from HEC without a second round of talks with the union leaders. The matter remained in discussion among the workers.
“Singhal failed to honour his words. After promising a second round of talk after lunch, he took off for New Delhi. He did not act like a senior officer. He is an escapist and weak officer,” a worker said.
Amid the strike, Hatia Mazdoor (CITU) Union president, made a video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi viral on social media. In the video, Modi is heard expressing his concern over the plight of HEC and talking big for making it a profit-making unit to save the employment of thousands. In the video, he is sharing his experience of saving a government-run fertiliser company of Gujarat.
