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Call for bandh in Karaikal tomorrow

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The Karaikal Chamber of Commerce has called for a bandh to protest against the move to shift the offices of the ONGC to Mayiladuturai. Move to shift ONGC offices opposed

KARAIKAL: The Karaikal Chamber of Commerce has called for a bandh on May 12 in the entire Karaikal region to protest against the move to shift the offices of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission from Karaikal to Mayiladuturai.

G.K. Narayanasamy, president of the Karaikal Chamber of Commerce, in a statement had alleged that the Union Minister for Petroleum, Mani Shankar Aiyar, was taking steps to shift all the offices of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) from Karaikal to his constituency of Mayiladuturai and pointed out that the finance section of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission had already been shifted to Mayiladuturai.Mr. Narayanasamy said that the Karaikal region saw major development after the establishment of ONGC offices and pointed out that the ONGC's head office in the region was functioning only in Karaikal since 1955.

He said that there was a good scope for getting direct and indirect employment in the ONGC in Karaikal.

Many business establishments and other small scale units were surviving only because of the presence of the ONGC offices in the region.

Memorandum sent to PM

Mr. Narayanasamy said that the Chamber had sent memoranda to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, the Petroleum Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, the Lt. Governor, M.M. Lakhera, the Chief Minister, N.Rengasamy, the Pondicherry Member of Parliament, M. Ramadass and the MLAs to give up the idea of shifting the ONGC offices.

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