Mangalore: On his way to Kasaragod from Udupi Pejawar Mutt Swamiji took 10 monutes off to stay with the encampment of job seekers at the DCO gates on Thursday, during the indefinite hunger strike in its 17th day of the youth who looked for a career of service in MSEZ in an MRPL project of expansion.
The Udupi CM vowed to CM Yeddyurappa of the fast of these trained technicians, asking him to fulfill the valid demands of these displaced young men and their families, cheated of employment now that was promised to them earlier on. No company can do such wrongs after the youth had undergone prolonged training to qualify for a career, he said.
The 200 youth on Dharna were from MSEZ affected families and they a memorandum of protest to the seer on their current predicament.
Where as 186 candidates had completed training, another 188 were undergoing the required job training, they told the Pejawar seer.
The company had put a stick and a carrot before them that they would get high-salaried jobs once they passed out of training classes, which half of them did.
The protestors demanded of the seer that the 186 trained candidates should be recruited immediately in MRPL/ONGC and to the 188 other after their training.
If the mega industry failed them, they should be paid a compensation of Rs.30 lakh each, for telling lies and spoiling their future, the youths demanded in their meeting with Pejawar Swamiji today.