While most of the world and the whole of India is undergoing a lockdown to fight COVID-19 pandemic, the factory of Tata BSL in Dhenkanal district of Odisha is working as usual.
The management of Tatas is openly defying the lockdown directive and has forced hundreds of its workers to work at their plant.
This extremely serious matter came to light with two tweets of sociopolitical leader and Smt Nandini Satpathy Memorial Trust chairman Suparno Satpathy. One of his tweets is addressed to Ratan Tata and the other to CM Naveen Patnaik. In his tweet he asks if the life of the workers at the Tata BSL plant was any less valuable.
The Dhenkanal SP said there are directives given by top officials to allow the smooth running of the plant during the lockdown.
Hundreds of factory workers are daily hoarded in busses and made to work in the factory.
