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TTP employees take out march

Protest: Employees of the Travancore Titanium Products taking out a march to the Assembly on Tuesday demanding steps to revive the flagging unit.

Thiruvananthapuram: Hundreds of employees of the Travancore Titanium Products (TTP) Ltd. belonging to different trade unions took out a march to the Assembly on Tuesday urging the government for immediate steps to revive the flagging unit and maintain it in the public sector.

K.V. Thomas, MLA, inaugurated the march organised by the Titanium Coordination Committee.

Addressing the workers, he called upon the government to foot the bill for the installation of an effluent treatment plant. The government, he said, was morally bound to revive the ailing company that had contributed thousands of crores of rupees to the exchequer in the form of taxes and service charge. BMS State president M.S. Karunakaran called upon the workers to mobilise themselves against attempts to privatise the factory. Thiruvanachoor Radhakrishnan, MLA, said high-level officials were to blame for the plight of public sector units in the State.

These officials, he said, had misled the government on the crisis faced by the units. Abdurab, MLA, urged the government to honour its commitment to install an effluent treatment plant at TTP. UTUC district secretary Poonthura Sajeev stressed the need to preserve TTP in the public sector at any cost.

P. Pratapachandran presided over the inaugural function.

Coordination committee convenor A.K.Rajan also addressed the workers.

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