The Veli People’s Welfare Association has decided to stage demonstrations in front of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) on Monday and Wednesday to protest against the retrenchment of local people employed on contract in the space agency. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, president of the association Veli Varghese said for the last several years local people were given the contract for running the canteen, gardening and cleaning works and data entry operation. The management had started giving the works to outsiders, thereby depriving local people of jobs at VSSC, he said.