No workers and officers turned up to work at the Rs 1 lakh Nano car plant of Tata Motors at Singur today, the
company informed.
On August 28, a group led by activist Anuradha Talwar had blockaded workers inside the plant when their shift ended around 5pm
and as a result the workers were stuck there till late at night, with many reaching home after 2am on August 29.
It was said that from today morning, workers and officers would be prevented from entering the plant, though the Trinamool Congress leaders agitating at the factory gate denied it. The combination of these two factors could have led to absence of workers at the plant today.
On August 28, a Tata Motors spokesman had told Business Standard that the company had not stopped work.
Trinamool would stage a road blockade across Bengal today for an hour from 4pm and this could have also influenced workers to stay away as the government was not expected to take substantive steps to lift the blockade.
In a parallel development, Calcutta High Court asked for a background check on an individual who had filed a public interest litigation alleging government inaction to lift the six-day long blockage of National Highway 2 at Singur owing to the Trinamool Congress agitation there.
The PIL was seeking directions on the government to lift the blockage.
A leading city daily this morning ran a report highlighting police actions that were actually leading more and more trucks to the Singur blockage and compounding the jam there instead of diverting trucks to NH6 and other smaller bypass roads.
