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A 30-day strike called by employees of ordnance factories was withdrawn today following an assurance by the government that a panel would be formed to look into their concerns.
The employees will join their duties from Monday. They had gone on a strike from 20th of this month against the government’s plan to corporatise ordnance factories as private sector entities.
The strike was called off following talks between representatives of various employees’ federations and senior officials of the Defence Production Department.
The Centre had proposed to convert ordnance factories into public sector units to boost production, increase profitability, bring about competitiveness and generate more jobs in the sector.