On June 24, another employee of the defunct Nagaon Paper Mill in Assam died due to a cardiac arrest, after reportedly failing to arrange money for treatment because of non-payment of salary for over four and half years.
NPM is one of the two paper mills of the government-owned Hindustan Paper Mill Corporation (HPCL), the other being the Panchgram Paper Mill in Cachar district, which have been unable to resume operations despite the central governments repeated assurances for the last five years.
According to the president of the Joint Action Committee of Recognised Unions, Manabendra Chakraborty, the death of the 58-year-old employee of the Nagaon Paper Mill has taken the death toll of the two mills to 90, including four suicides within…
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