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40 pots of smelter plant at Balco frozen

Authorities at the Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) on Thursday said that 40 pots of the cell house of the Smelter Plant here have frozen even as the indefinite strike by the 6,000 plant workers protesting privatisation of the company entered the sixth day.

The company's GM (works), C W Deoras said that the management had appealed to the workers to rejoin work to save the smelter as 40 of the 395 pots, which were under operation on the day the agitation was launched, had frozen.

The rest were in a critical state and could go cold in a few hours time, he said.

To restart operations even now, it would require about Rs 500 million and three to six months time, he told reporters.

Coordinator of the Balco Bachao Sanyukta Abhijan Samiti (BBSAS), Bodhram Kanwar, said it had already provided 32 workers to help the management to cope with the critical situation, though the authorities had requested for at least 191 workers to man each of the three shifts to keep the various equipment and installations in proper condition.

Special passes issued by the BBSAS were being given to the workers deputed to go inside the plant, Kanwar said.

"We are willing to provide more workers and the process is on. We also want that the plant should be safe," he said.

He said the agitation would remain peaceful and continue till the "just demand" of the workers were met. BBSAS was considering to call for a Chhatisgarh Bandh, he added.

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