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<p><span><div class="itg-mosimage"><amp-img src="https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.dev?url=https%3A%2F%2Fakm-img-a-in.tosshub.com%2Fsites%2Fmedia2%2Findiatoday%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F1998May%2Fdelaying_082812114904.jpg" alt="" height="425" width="650" class="" layout="responsive"></amp-img>Ashim Dasgupta: package worries</div></span><b>Calcutta: </b>When West Bengal Finance Minister Ashim Dasgupta announced a Rs 50 crore package for employees of sick industrial units in the state budget this year, he did not visualise what he was getting into. </p><p>Now, even casual workers are clamouring for the dole. According to Dasgupta's plan, 83,333 employees of sick units were to be paid Rs 500 a month from May 1. <br><br>But that had to be postponed as the trade unions demanded a clear definition of a closed unit. In his budget speech, he had defined it as "a unit that had remained closed for one year or more". But by the Government's own admission, there are only 100 such units that together employ 38,846 workers. </p><p>If it now decides to compensate more workers, it would mean that the Marxists have been masking the real extent of industrial sickness in West Bengal.<br></p><div id="tab-link-wrapper-plugin"><div class="authors__container"><div class="authors__by"><div class="authlable">Published By: </div><div class="authdetaisl">AtMigration </div></div><div class="published__on"><div class="authlable">Published On: </div><div class="authdetaisl">May 18, 1998</div></div></div><div class="sendros">--- ENDS ---</div></div>

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Package for employees of sick industrial units postpone as trade unions demands clarity

Package for employees of sick industrial units postpone as trade unions demands clarity.

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