This story is from July 29, 2016

HA workers’ delegation in Delhi for talks

The Hindustan Antibiotics Mazdoor Sangh has demanded that the Union government decide about a public-private partnership for Hindustan Antibiotics Limited.
HA workers’ delegation in Delhi for talks

Pimpri Chinchwad: The Hindustan Antibiotics Mazdoor Sangh has demanded that the Union government decide about a public-private partnership for Hindustan Antibiotics Limited.
General secretary Sunil Pataskar said the government should also release money for payment of salaries for 20 months to the 1,100-odd employees. A delegation is now in New Delhi to meet ministers.
"The employees are facing severe hardships. We want the Centre to release this amount immediately.
Three months ago, it had formed a three-member cabinet committee, comprising Arun Jaitley, Anant Kumar and Nitin Gadkari to decided about running the company on a PPP basis or through the central government."
Pataskar said, "The total arrears of salaries and other benefits is around Rs 120 crore and the amount will go on increasing as the days pass."
The delegation included former general secretaries Arun Borhade and Rajendra Jadhav, officers association representatives Kailas Narote and Milind Kamat, president of HAMS and Maval MP Shrirang Barne who is also the president of HAMS.
In April, the state government promised an HAL delegation that he would take up the issue of reviving the company with the Centre. The HAL management had written to the state government on March 28, requesting financial assistance of Rs44 crore to restart production.

The company was declared sick and referred to the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction in 1997. It received funds worth Rs132 crore after 10 years. The revival package proposal was submitted five years later. Officials claimed that if the package was approved, new plants would be set up and a voluntary retirement scheme would be introduced for 500 employees.
Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd in Pimpri is the first PSU that started manufacturing penicillin in the country.
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