Manufacturers’ assn up in arms against ‘unreasonable’ fines

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, June 15

The Janta Nagar Small Scale Manufacturers’Association today staged a dharna outside the office of the Chief Engineer of PSPCL against “unreasonable” penalties slapped on the industry. The dharna will continue till Friday.

Members of the association said the industrialists had been penalised for overload use of two to three months, for which they had been asked to pay for the whole year.

Talking to Ludhiana Tribune, president of the association JS Thukral Thukral said six members of the association sat on the dharna. A police force was also deployed on the spot but we continued our protest peacefully, he added.

“We plan to sit on the dharna against PSPCL’s anti-industry policies till Friday. They have slapped huge penalties even on small manufacturers, who have used power (overload) for two or three months but have been asked to pay for the whole year. This is not acceptable to us,” said Thukral.