Protest at IOC plant disrupts LPG supply

The supply of cooking gas cylinders from the Indian Oil Corporation plant in Durgapur town to seven south Bengal districts was disrupted on Wednesday after 34 former security guards and their families locked the gate and demonstrated against the company’s decision not to reemploy them from January 1.

IOC sources in Durgapur said the company had taken the decision to employ a new contractor who sourced their staff wholly from ex-servicemen.

The plant supplies over 50,000 LPG cylinders to districts including West and East Burdwan, Bankura, Purulia, Murshidabad, Birbhum and Hooghly.